Castile
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Castile or Castilia or Castilla may refer to:
- Places in Spain
- Castile (historical region), a former kingdom, gradually merged with its neighbors to become the Kingdom of Spain
- Old Castile, the northern region of Castile
- New Castile, the southern region of Castile
- Kingdom of Castile, one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula
- Crown of Castile, considered to have begun with the final and definitive union of the two kingdoms of León and Castile in 1230
- Castile-La Mancha, an autonomous community of Spain
- Castile and León, one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain
- Other places
- Castilla de Oro, an old name for a region in Central America
- Castilla, Sorsogon, 3rd class municipality in Philippines
- Castile, New York, both a village and a town located in Wyoming County, New York.
- Ships
- Castilla, a Spanish Navy cruiser that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
- People
- Botany and Zoology
- Castilia (butterfly), a butterfly genus
- Castilla (plant), a tree genus belonging to the family Moraceae
- Other uses
- Real Madrid Castilla, the reserve team of Real Madrid
- Castile soap, a name used in English-speaking countries for soap made exclusively from vegetable oil
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