Western Asturian, is a linguistic variety in Western Asturian lands between the rivers Navia and Nalón, and western provinces of León, where is called Leonese as endonym, Zamora and Salamanca.
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The dialects in adjoining areas of Castile and León have continuity with the Asturian dialects; in that area they are referred to as Leonese.
Pedralba de la Praderia is rich in linguistic diversity, because three different Romance languages are spoken there: Spanish, Galician and Leonese.
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The Battle of Consuegra was a battle of the Spanish Reconquista fought on August 15, 1097 near the village of Consuegra in the province of Castile-La Mancha between the Castilian and Leonese army of Alfonso VI and the Almoravids under Yusuf ibn Tashfin.
Major wines in Castilian-Leonese cuisine include the robust wine of Toro, reds from Ribera del Duero, whites from Rueda, and clarets from Cigales.
In 1336 the Castilian-Leonese troops under the command of Enrique Enríquez the Younger, together with those of Pedro Ponce de León the Elder, Lord of Marchena, and those of Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Coronel, lord of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, defeated the troops of King Alfonso IV of Portugal in the battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota.
Francisco Ignacio Elizondo Villarreal, (Salinas Valley, New Kingdom of León, New Spain, March 9, 1766 - San Marcos, Texas, New Spain, September 2, 1813), was a New Leonese royalist general, mostly known for his victorious plot to seek to capture important insurgency precursors of the Mexican War of Independence such as Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, and Juan Aldama in Baján, Coahuila in 1811.
León retained the status of a kingdom until 1833, being composed by Adelantamientos Mayores, where Leonese Adelantamiento consisted of the territories between the Picos de Europa and the Duero river.
Santa Cruz de Abranes (Santa Cruz d'Abranes in the vernacular Leonese language) is a Spanish village in the municipality of Pedralba de la Pradería (Zamora, Castile and León) and is situated on the Spanish-Portuguese border.
The name of the comarca, Valle del Besaya is derived from the Astur-Leonese Bisalia, which in turn derives from the Celtic, Bis-salia (the second Salia or Saja) from the two rivers that flow through the city.