The Kingdom of Córdoba was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile

Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile was a medieval and modern state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then King Ferdinand III of Castile to the vacant Leonese throne...

 from the time it was won from Muslim

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 rule in 1236 during the Reconquista

Reconquista

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until Javier de Burgos

Javier de Burgos

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' provincial

Provinces of Spain

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 division of Spain in 1833. This was a "kingdom" ("reino") in the second sense given by the Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española

Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española

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: the Crown of Castile consisted of several such kingdoms. Córdoba was one of the Four Kingdoms of Andalusia

Four Kingdoms of Andalusia

The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula, south of the Sierra Morena...

. Its extent is detailed in Respuestas Generales del Catastro de Ensenada

Catastro of Ensenada

In 1749 a large-scale census and statistical investigation was conducted in the Crown of Castile . It included population, territorial properties, buildings, cattle, offices, all kinds of revenue and trades, and even geographical information from each place...

(1750-54), which was part of the documentation of a census.

Like the other kingdoms within Spain, the Kingdom of Córdoba was abolished by the 1833 territorial division of Spain

1833 territorial division of Spain

The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided Spain into provinces, classified into "historic regions" . on the official web site of the government of the Canary Islands, accessed 2009-12-31...

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See also

• Córdoba, Spain
  Córdoba, Spain
  -History:The first trace of human presence in the area are remains of a Neanderthal Man, dating to c. 32,000 BC. In the 8th century BC, during the ancient Tartessos period, a pre-urban settlement existed. The population gradually learned copper and silver metallurgy...
  
  
• :es:Anexo:Localidades del Reino de Córdoba, a list of the localities that composed the Kingdom of Jaén, according to the Catastro of Ensenada
  Catastro of Ensenada
  In 1749 a large-scale census and statistical investigation was conducted in the Crown of Castile . It included population, territorial properties, buildings, cattle, offices, all kinds of revenue and trades, and even geographical information from each place...
  
  (1750-54); this page is an appendix to the Spanish-language Wikipedia.