Home › L › Leon (Ancient kingdom of Spain)

Leon (Ancient kingdom of Spain)

an ancient kingdom of Spain, equivalent, generally, to the modern provinces of Leon, Palencia, Valladolid, earliest Christian kingdom, next after Asturias, to be formed in Spain after the Moorish wave of conquest began to tury, and was united with Castile first by Ferdinand the Great in 1037, and finally in 1230. The modern province has an area of 6,165 square miles, and a pop. of 400,000. The country, which Minho, is mountainous, being invaded on the N. by the Cantabrian Mountains.

The soil is generally fertile. The in- habitants are for the most part uneducated and lazy, but honorable, hospitable, and good-natured. At Astorga the Marand good-natured. At Astorga As the Maragatos are variously supposed to be descendants of the Celtiberi, the Visigoths, or the Moors. Leon is also the name of a part of Brittany.

LEON (the Legio Septima Gemina of the Romans), capital of the former kingdom and of the modern province of the same name, but now a sleepy agricultural town; in a plain, 256 miles N. W. of Madrid. Pop. about 18,000. The beautiful cathedral (about 1195-1512), a probably, orispecimen of the purest Early Pointed, is French in character and, pro gin. It contains the tombs of many sov- French in character and, probably, oriereigns of Leon, saints, and martyrs. Leon is the center of the Spanish linen manufacture, and has a celebrated horse fair. fair. tensive plain. Once the boast of Spanish America, founded at the head of Lake ish America, founded at the head of Lake Managua in 1523, removed hither in 1610, retiring which include achusetts, York, Ne the Bosic is industri piano casa and a par 19,944. om of Spa oned to Via th rovince 195-15 decorate - Palazzo historical chose a While "The Bz years wo his cart method of proved a the work About 156 brated of half-leng Zanobi de by Franci now one Louvre. trayed th Benci; and tion" (150 figures fro In 1508 who died i Rome, cons for the ex Lorenzo in king, Franc a yearly assigned to near Ambos great artist LEONG Calian comy March 8, 10 Jagner, ah teacher in angs and me he skel story, of ction. He "Paglia cher opera 878" aza (19 904). Die LEONIDA ng of S other, Cle nen the ached with opposed ermopylse Spartans, iliaries. to win ove making his ece; and w calling the s, the Spa e and take Ephialtes ar any los Leonidas away the selves on found a