Four Kingdoms of Andalusia

The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia ( or, in 18th-century orthography, ) was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula, south of the Sierra Morena. These kingdoms were annexed from other states by the Kingdoms of Castille during the Reconquista: the Kingdom of Córdoba was conquered in 1236, the Kingdom of Jaén 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.Pablo de Olavide was "Intendente del Ejército de los cuatro reinos de Andalucía" Biografía , Fundación Pablo de Olavide, accessed online 2009-12-19.In the Respuestas generales del Catastro de Ensenada de Gelo del Cabildo, lugar del reino de Sevilla, dated 1751, José María de Mendoza y Guzmán, is described as the "visitador general de Rentas Provinciales de los cuatro Reinos de Andalucía". See the digital version of the document on the site of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Enter "Gelo" in the search box "Buscador Localidades" and see image number 3. Some works and documents that use the designation are the (1792), the (1810), and (1833), among many others.

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See also Hermandad General de Andalucía

References 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