The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia ( or, in 18th-century

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, ) was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the

Crown of Castile The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Kingdom of Castile, Castile and Kingd ...

located in the southern

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, south of the Sierra Morena. These kingdoms were annexed from other states by the Kingdoms of Castille during the ''

Reconquista The ''Reconquista'' (Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese for ) or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian Reconquista#Northern Christian realms, kingdoms waged ag ...

'': the Kingdom of Córdoba was conquered in 1236, the

Kingdom of Jaén The Kingdom of Jaén () was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile since 1246 and until Javier de Burgos' provinces of Spain, provincial division of Spain in 1833. This was a "kingdom" () in the second sense given by the : the Crown ...

in 1246, the Kingdom of Seville in 1248 and the Kingdom of Granada in 1492. The name was used in some contexts at least since the middle of the 18th century. Some works and documents that use the designation are the (1792), the (1810), and (1833), among many others.

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* Juan Eslava Galán
El ámbito territorial del Reino de Jaén: una cuestión de geografía histórica
''Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Giennenses'', ISSN 0561-3590, Nº. 112, 1982, pp. 83–96 History of Andalusia Kingdom of Castile

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