Old Castile

American  

[ka-steel] / kæˈstil /

noun

1. a region in N Spain: formerly a province.

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Old Castile British  

noun

1. Spanish name: Castilla la Vieja.  a region of N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay: formerly a province

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Old Castile

Rumors of its causes swept the country, particularly in Spain's Old Castile and other central provinces, where the outbreak was most severe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Castile covers the northern part of Spain's bleak, sun-scorched central tableland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Exactly 25 years ago, with the Spanish Civil War not yet three months old, an army junta met in the Old Castile capital of Burgos and elected him Chief of Government of Nationalist Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

And one day he announces grandly: "In Old Castile I own a pigeon cote which if it were not in ruins would hold 200 pigeons if I had pigeons."

From Time Magazine Archive

“A better sword than that,” said an ancient workman, a native of Old Castile, “never transfixed Moor out yonder on the sagra.”

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry