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

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

Old Castile is the country which gave Spain its greatest queen, Isabella, its ideal knight, the Cid, and its mystic saint, St. Theresa of Avila.

From Time Magazine Archive

The generals seized power in Old Castile and Navarre, in the north, and in much of Andalusia, in the south.

From Time Magazine Archive

THE province of Old Castile is the center and heart of Spain, the seat of the nation's gone but remembered glory and power.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw, in imagination, the uplands of Old Castile, as I had often heard them described, hot in summer and bleak in winter.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John