1833 territorial division of Spain

Map of the 1833 territorial division of Spain into regions (colored) and provinces (outlined).

Map of the similar 1822 territorial division of Spain. The 1822 territorial division only defined provinces; the historical regions indicated by colors were not defined until 1833.

The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided the country into provinces, in turn classified into "historic regions" (Spanish: regiones históricas).[1] This division was followed (helped by the enforcing of the 1834 Royal Statute) by the ensuing creation of provincial deputations, the government institutions for most of the provinces, remaining up to this date. Nearly all of the provinces retain roughly or precisely the 1833 borders.[2][3][n. 1] Conversely, many of the historic regions correspond to present-day autonomous communities.[2]

  1. ^ (in Spanish) Real Decreto de 30 de noviembre de 1833 on Wikisource;
    Real Decreto de 30 de noviembre de 1833 Archived 22 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine on the official web site of the government of the Canary Islands. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
    Original announcement in the Gaceta num. 154. on the Agencia Estatal Boletin Oficial del Estado of Spain.
  2. ^ a b (in Spanish) Eduardo Barrenechea, Los 'gibraltares' de unas regiones en otras: Treviño, Llivia, Rincón de Ademuz..., El País, 8 February 1983. Retrieved 30 December 2000. This article comments on the persistence of the 1833 territorial division, in the context of a discussion of the remaining exclaves of various provinces.
  3. ^ Daniele Conversi, The Spanish Federalist Tradition and the 1978 Constitution Archived 7 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, p. 12, footnote 63. Retrieved 31 December 2000.
  4. ^ Spain Provinces, statoids.com. Retrieved 31 December 2009. The five provinces in question are Gerona/Girona, Lérida/Lleida, and Palma de Mallorca/Illes Balears, which took Catalan names and La Coruña/A Coruña and Orense/Ourense, which took Galician names.
  5. ^ Oviedo became Asturias, Logroño became La Rioja, and Santander became Cantabria.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference La Rioja was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Asturias was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cantabria was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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