Province of León

León (/lˈɒn, -ˈn/; Spanish: León [leˈon]; Galician: León [le'oŋ] ; Leonese: Llión [ʎiˈoŋ]) is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

About one quarter of its population of 500,200 (2008) lives in the capital, León. The weather is cold and dry during the winter.

There are Roman Catholic cathedrals at León and Astorga. The province shares the Picos de Europa National Park (in the Picos de Europa mountain range) with Cantabria and Asturias. It has 211 municipalities.

History

The province of León was established in 1833 with the new Spanish administrative organisation of regions and provinces to replace former kingdoms. The Leonese Region was composed of the provinces of León, Salamanca and Zamora.

Until 1833, the independently administered Kingdom of León, situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula, retained the status of a kingdom, although dynastic union had brought it into the Crown of Castile. The Kingdom of León was founded in 910 A.D. when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their main seat from Oviedo to the city of León. The Atlantic provinces became the Kingdom of Portugal in 1139.

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Google Maps Potentially Shows Murder Victim Being Loaded Into Back Of A Car

IFL Science 19 Dec 2024
Back in November 2023, in the small town of Tajueco in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain, a 33-year-old resident of the nearby city of Soria was reported missing ... Advertisement ... Advertisement ... .

Two arrested after Google Maps image provides clue in missing persons case

CNN 19 Dec 2024
The image, which still appears on Google Maps, was taken in the streets of Tajueco, a small village in the province of Soria in the Castile and León region in northern Spain, in October ... The investigation continues. .

Google Street View catches Spanish murder suspect ‘moving body’

The Times/The Sunday Times 18 Dec 2024
The alleged crime took place in the sparsely populated Spanish province of Soria in the northern Castile and León region ... Police have arrested a Cuban woman, the former partner of the deceased ... SOLARPIX ... World. Europe ... .

Women walking Camino de Santiago speak of ‘terrifying’ sexual harassment

The Observer 11 Nov 2024
It feels very common ... A pilgrim approaches Castrojeriz in Castilla v León, Spain ... Concerns over female pilgrims’ safety burst into public view in 2015 after the American pilgrim Denise Thiem went missing in a rural area of León province, Spain ... Share ... .

Foreign pilgrim accused of setting one of northern Spain’s largest wildfires

AOL 21 Aug 2024
Authorities from the province of León said that a 33-year-old man “of foreign nationality” was arrested on Tuesday some 20km further along the pilgrimage route, known in Spain as the Camino de Santiago.

British man goes missing in Spain after ‘arguing with wife’ sparking police hunt

Metro UK 13 Jul 2024
The 48-year-old, who has not been named, was last seen rowing with his wife in the north-east province of León ... Castile and León’s emergency services said his vehicle was found empty in the town of Las Salas.

Which Spanish province grows the most carrots?

Fresh Plaza 11 Apr 2024
Other important producers are Castilla y León with provinces ...

Right-wing parties ‘whitewash’ Spain’s fascist past with law erasing Franco dictatorship

AOL 30 Mar 2024
Emilio Silva, whose grandfather, also called Emilio, was murdered in the province of León by fascist Falangist forces in 1936 because of his Leftist affiliations, said the draft law was “an insult to families like mine”.

‘We came away awestruck’: 13 writers on Europe’s hidden treasures, from Chagall in Kent to Rome’s secret Caravaggios

The Observer 14 Jan 2024
All the greats in one estate, France ... Photograph. iabegega/Alamy ... As an adult I found out the long-lost exact location of the graveyard in the northern province of Burgos in the Castile and León region of northwest Spain – and discovered it had a name. .

Study shows how it's possible to phase out fossil fuels without sacrificing electoral popularity

Phys Dot Org 06 Dec 2023
Under the resulting "Just Transition Agreement," 28 coal mines were to be closed by the end of 2019 in three provinces—Asturias, Teruel, and León—and the government agreed to provide €250 million in ...

Iberdrola completes Spain’s first hybrid wind-solar plant

PV Magazine 28 Sep 2023
From pv magazine Spain ... The solar plant consists of a 74 MW solar facility spreas across the municipalities of Revilla Vallejera, Villamedianilla, and Vallejer, near Burgos, in the central Spanish province of Castilla y León ... ....

The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and Its First Consequences for Global Politics: Making the U.S. a ...

GlobalResearch 01 Jul 2023
... abortive American military interventions in that country in 1914 (invasion on Tampico and Veracruz) and 1916 (invasion across Rio Grande on Mexican provinces of Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo León).

Spanish council digs up Roman road

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 Mar 2023
The Roman road in the northern Spanish province of León had remained untrodden for more than 2,000 years — a 1.3km stretch of history, surrounded by the sites of former camps, dotted with milestones ...

An Extraordinary Discovery: A Giant’s Ring of the Inca Era?

Ancient Origins 02 Feb 2023
According to the record of Cieza de León, the indigenous usually named him for the most part Tiseviracocha although in the Province of Collao they called him Tuapaca and in other places Harnava.

Denarius Signs Option Agreement With Europa Metals to Develop the Toral Zinc-Lead-Silver ...

Eagle-Tribune 05 Oct 2022
The Toral Project is located approximately 400 km or 4 hours’ drive northwest of Madrid in the province of León, within the autonomous region of Castilla-Leon.

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