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Coordinates: 39°52′N 4°01′W / 39.87°N 4.02°W
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| Capital | Toledo | ||||
| Official languages | Spanish | ||||
| Area – Total – % of Spain |
Ranked 3rd 79,463 km² 15.7% |
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| Population – Total (2008) – % of Spain – Density |
Ranked 9th 2,043,100 4.3% 25.66/km² |
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| Demonym – English – Spanish |
Castilian-Manchego Castellano-manchego/a |
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Statute of Autonomy
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16 August 1982 | ||||
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– Congress seats – Senate seats |
20 + 2 [2] |
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| President | José María Barreda Fontes (PSOE) | ||||
| ISO 3166-2 | CM | ||||
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Castile-La Mancha (Spanish "Castilla-La Mancha") is an autonomous community of Spain.
Castile-La Mancha is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's autonomous communities.
Its capital city is Toledo, and its most populated city is Albacete.
Castile-La Mancha was formerly grouped with the province of Madrid into New Castile ("Castilla la Nueva"), but with the advent of the modern Spanish system of semi-autonomous regions ("las autonomías"), it was separated due to great demographic disparity between the capital and the remaining New-Castilian provinces.
It is mostly in this region where the story of the famous Spanish novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is situated. Although La Mancha is a windswept, battered plateau, it remains a symbol of the Spanish culture with its sunflowers, mushrooms, oliveyards, windmills, Manchego cheese, and Don Quixote.
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The history of Castile-La Mancha has been significant. Its origin lay in the Muslim period between the 8th and 14th century. Castile-La Mancha was the region of many historical battles between Christian crusaders and Muslim forces during the period of 1000 to the 14th centuries (until the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, which aftermath assured the Castilian domination of the region with the decline of the Almohad Dynasty). It was also the region were the unification of Castile and Aragon in 1492 under Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand was created.
Castile-La Mancha is divided into 5 provinces named after their capital cities. The following category includes:
Other important Towns in Castile-La Mancha (with more than 25 000 inhabitants) are:
Other towns in Castile-La Mancha (with less than 25 000 inhabitants) are:
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