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Province of Seville

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Seville Province
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Coordinates: 37°30′N 5°30′W / 37.500°N 5.500°W / 37.500; -5.500Coordinates: 37°30′N 5°30′W / 37.500°N 5.500°W / 37.500; -5.500
CountrySpain
Autonomous communityAndalusia
CapitalSeville
Government
 • PresidentFernando Rodríguez Villalobos (PSOE)
Area
 • Total14,042 km2 (5,422 sq mi)
 • RankRanked 12th
 2.78% of Spain
Population
 (2010)
 • Total1,917,097
 • RankRanked 5th
 • Density140/km2 (350/sq mi)
Official language(s)Spanish
ParliamentCortes Generales
Websitewww.dipusevilla.es
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The Province of Seville (Spanish: Sevilla) is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It borders the provinces of Málaga, Cádiz in the south, Huelva in the west, Badajoz in the north and Córdoba in the east. Seville is the province's as well as the Andalusian autonomous community's capital.[1]

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Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula. Today, it is a global language with about 486 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico.

Provinces of Spain

Provinces of Spain

A province in Spain is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities, although their origin dates back to 1833 with a similar predecessor from 1822 and with roots in the Napoleonic division of Spain into 84 prefectures in 1810. In addition to their political function, provinces are commonly used today as geographical references for example to disambiguate small towns whose names occur frequently throughout Spain. There are many other groupings of municipalities that comprise the local government of Spain.

Spain

Spain

Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country primarily located in southwestern Europe with parts of territory in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Mediterranean Sea. The largest part of Spain is situated on the Iberian Peninsula; its territory also includes the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in Africa. The country's mainland is bordered to the south by Gibraltar; to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea; to the north by France, Andorra and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the second-largest country in the European Union (EU) and, with a population exceeding 47.4 million, the fourth-most populous EU member state. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Bilbao.

Autonomous communities of Spain

Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community is the first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

Andalusia

Andalusia

Andalusia is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga, and Seville. Its capital city is Seville. The seat of the High Court of Justice of Andalusia is located in the city of Granada.

Seville

Seville

Seville is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

Overview

Located on the southern bank of the Guadalquivir river, the city of Seville is the largest one in Andalusia.[2] The former province of Andalusia was divided by the Moors into four separate kingdoms—Seville, Cordova, Jaen and Granada.[3] Seville has the highest GDP among the provinces of Andalusia . The Provinces of Málaga (€28,506 million) and Cadiz (€22,574 million) are 2nd and 3rd respectively.[4] The Port of Seville is of great economic importance to the province.[5]

The area of the province is 14,042 km2. Its population is 1,914,958 (2010), of whom 40% live in the capital, Seville, and its population density is 125.25/km2. It contains 105 municipalities. The province shares the Parque Nacional de Doñana with Huelva province. It also has the Sierra Norte de Sevilla Natural Park. The 177,484 hectares park is Andalusia's largest protected area.[2] The Guadalquivir crosses the province from east to west. Guadiana, Pinta and Xenil are other important rivers.[6] The northern part of the province is mostly mountainous.[7][8] Seville has a warm Mediterranean climate with an annual average temperature of 18.5 °C. Winters are generally mild while summers are hot. The maximum temperatures in summer often surpass 40 °C. The locality of Écija is popularly known as the “Frying Pan of Andalusia” for its torrid summers.[9][10] Écija is known for its high value of corn production.[6] The province of Seville generates 1.92% of the Spanish hotel movement. In terms of tourism, the city of Seville is one of the leading cities in Andalusia, situated behind Barcelona and Madrid on a national level. In 208 B.C. the whole population of an outpost in the present town of Estepa burnt their houses and committed suicide before Romans attacked it.[2] The capital city Seville is the world's most dense one in terms of Baroque churches.[11] The Socialist Workers Party won the elections in the province from 1982 to 2000. In comparison to other Spanish provinces, Seville is underdeveloped.[12]

Population development

The historical population is given in the following chart:

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Seville

Seville

Seville is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

Port of Seville

Port of Seville

The Port of Seville is a river port in Spain, located on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, in the city of Seville. It is the only commercial river port in the country.

List of municipalities in Seville

List of municipalities in Seville

This is a list of the 105 municipalities in the province of Seville, within the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

Doñana National Park

Doñana National Park

Doñana National Park or Parque Nacional y Natural de Doñana is a natural reserve in Andalucía, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva, Cádiz and Seville. It covers 543 km2 (209.65 sq mi), of which 135 km2 (52.12 sq mi) are a protected area. The park is an area of marshes, shallow streams, and sand dunes in Las Marismas, the delta where the Guadalquivir River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It was established as a nature reserve in 1969 when the World Wildlife Fund joined with the Spanish government and purchased a section of marshes to protect it. The eco-system has been under constant threat by the draining of the marshes, the use of river water to boost agricultural production by irrigating land along the coast, water pollution by upriver mining, and the expansion of tourist facilities. It is named after Doña Ana de Silva y Mendoza, wife of the 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia.

Sierra Norte de Sevilla

Sierra Norte de Sevilla

Sierra Norte de Sevilla or Sierra Norte is one of the western mountain ranges of the Sierra Morena, Andalusia, Spain. Its name derives from its location at the northern part of Sevilla Province. The highest point of the range is the 960 m high Cerro de La Capitana.

Guadalquivir

Guadalquivir

The Guadalquivir is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain. The Guadalquivir is the only major navigable river in Spain. Currently it is navigable from the Gulf of Cádiz to Seville, but in Roman times it was navigable to Córdoba.

Mediterranean climate

Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes, characterized by warm to hot, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the majority of Mediterranean-climate regions and countries, but remain highly dependent on proximity to the ocean, altitude and geographical location.

Écija

Écija

Écija is a city and municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is in the countryside, 85 km east of the city of Seville. According to the 2008 census, Écija had a total population of 40,100 inhabitants, ranking as the fifth most populous municipality in the province. The river Genil, the main tributary of the river Guadalquivir, runs through the city.

Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid, and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range.

Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. The municipality covers 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area.

Estepa

Estepa

Estepa is a municipality in the extreme south-east of the province of Seville. It had a population of 12.631 in 2013. The town is located north of the Sierra del Becerro mountains.

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Province of Sevilla". Andalucia. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "Province of Sevilla". Spain Holiday. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  3. ^ The Royal Military Chronicle: Or, British Officers Monthly Register and Mentor. V.1-7, Nov.1810-Apr.1814; New Ser. V.1-6, May 1814-Apr.1817. J. Davis. 1812. p. 9.
  4. ^ "Anuario Económico La Caixa 2012" [La Caixa Economic Yearbook 2012] (in Spanish). La Caixa. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  5. ^ Coto-Millán, Pablo; Inglada, Vicente (2007). Essays on Transport Economics. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 185. ISBN 978-3-7908-1765-2.
  6. ^ a b Bell 1832, p. 274.
  7. ^ Bell 1832, p. 273.
  8. ^ Bell, James (1832). A System of Geography, Popular, and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions. A. Fullarton and Company. p. 273.
  9. ^ Facaros, Dana; Pauls, Michael (2008). Andalucia. New Holland Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-86011-389-5.
  10. ^ Malte-Brun, Conrad (1831). Universal Geography, Or, a Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan: Spain, Portugal, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and Holland. A. Black. p. 106.
  11. ^ Head, Jeremy (2011). Frommer's Seville, Granada and the Best of Andalusia. John Wiley & Sons. p. 1239. ISBN 978-1-119-99445-9.
  12. ^ Vobolevicius, Vincentas (2007). Politics of State Aid. Electoral Motivations Behind Government Assistance to Industries in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. ProQuest. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-549-58314-1.

Source: "Province of Seville", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 18th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Seville.

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Further Reading

Andalusia

Seville

Province of Córdoba (Spain)

Province of Cádiz

Sanlúcar de Barrameda

Écija

Andalusians

Kingdom of Seville

Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía

1990 Andalusian regional election

Seville (Parliament of Andalusia constituency)

Cádiz (Parliament of Andalusia constituency)

Granada (Parliament of Andalusia constituency)

Huelva (Parliament of Andalusia constituency)

Málaga (Parliament of Andalusia constituency)

Seville-Santa Justa railway station

Diario de Sevilla

History of Andalusia
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