Castilla-La Mancha
Castile -La Mancha (Spanish Castilla -La Mancha, officially Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla -La Mancha ) is a Spanish Autonomous Community. Castile -La Mancha includes the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo. Capital city is Toledo.
Castile -La Mancha is one of the historic center of Spanish landscape Castile and is also known as La Mancha. Traditionally included the province of Madrid Castilla La Mancha, but these forms since 1983, the Community of Madrid.
Geography
With 79,463 km ² land area of Castilla- La Mancha is about the size of the Czech Republic. It thus extends over 15.7 % of Spain's land mass, but notes with a population density of 26.5 inhabitants per km ², only 4.3 % of the population of Spain dar.
History
Castile -La Mancha is the successor of the historical region of Castilla La Mancha, which in turn was followed by the Kingdom of Toledo. The Kingdom of Toledo was one of the kingdoms ( Taifa ) from Al -Andalus, whose capital by Alfonso VI. was conquered by Castile in 1085. Later, the areas of Cuenca were conquered in 1177 and the rest of southern area was at the time Alfonso VIII of Castile consolidated.
1605 appeared the first edition of the book Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, which has made a part of Castile -La Mancha famous.
1785, the region was divided by a territorial order of Floridablanca in the provinces of Cuenca, Guadalajara, Madrid, La Mancha and Toledo. In contrast, the population of Albacete, Chinchilla, Almansa, Hellin and Yeste became part of the Kingdom of Murcia.
Landscape of La Mancha: Sierra de Alcaraz.
Economy
Expressed in comparison with the EU GDP in purchasing power standards, the region reached an index of 79 (EU -27: 100) (2010).
Near the village of Almaden there was the world's largest deposits of cinnabar.
The 190,000 ha ( area under vines ) great wine growing region of La Mancha is by far the largest in Spain. 300 wineries produce about 100 million liters of wine annually. In the region, inter alia, strong red wines grown ( grape varieties: Merlot and Tempranillo ).
Science
The facilities, which was founded in 1985 decentralized University of Castilla -La Mancha are distributed over almost the entire region. Its principal offices are the provincial capitals of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca and Toledo.
In Guadalajara there is a campus of the University of Alcalá.
Literary
The landscape of La Mancha was known by the figure of Don Quixote of La Mancha, the main character of the novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. In a very well-known adventures he is fighting against the windmills of this landscape, which he keeps in his madness for fuchtelnde with the poor giants.