Castile

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Castile or Castilia or Castilla may refer to:

• Castilla (plant), a tree genus belonging to the family Moraceae
• Real Madrid Castilla, the reserve team of Real Madrid
• Castile soap, a name used in English-speaking countries for soap made exclusively from vegetable oil
• Castilia (butterfly), a butterfly genus

Places in Spain

• Castile (historical region), a former kingdom, gradually merged with its neighbors to become the Kingdom of Spain
• Kingdom of Castile, one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula
  • New Castile, the southern part of the Kingdom of Castile
• Crown of Castile, considered to have begun with the final and definitive union of the two kingdoms of León and Castile in 1230
• Castile-La Mancha, an autonomous community of Spain
• Castile and León, one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain
• Old Castile, a historic region of Spain

Other places

• Castilla de Oro, an old name for a region in Central America
• Castilla, Sorsogon, 3rd class municipality in Philippines

[edit] See also

• Castella, a sponge cake, specialty of Nagasaki, thought to be originally from Spain
• Castilian

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