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This proposal made few concessions to history, sticking closely to criteria of population, geographical area, and geographic coherence. Historic regional names were generally ignored, with provinces named after their respective capitals. Nor were traditional provincial borders respected by the new
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in 1823 brought an end to the project. The old provincial arrangement of Spain was restored, as was the division into kingdoms; these would remain in effect until 1833.
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Map of the 1822 territorial division of Spain. The colored regions here properly date from 1833, not 1822. They are used here just to enable easy comparison of the maps.
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506:intendants
497:map. Most
420:Pamplona (
401:Chinchilla
365:Pontevedra
301:Valladolid
232:Las Palmas
129:Provinces
70:Background
38:autonomies
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385:El Vierzo
381:Salamanca
353:La Coruña
325:Tarragona
313:Barcelona
308:Catalonia
289:Santander
180:Calatayud
135:Andalusia
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435:Alicante
430:Valencia
285:Palencia
199:Asturias
192:Zaragoza
94:restored
691:Jarique
639:de 1822
542:El País
487:Spanish
461:Vizcaya
422:Navarre
416:Navarre
348:Galicia
341:Cáceres
337:Badajoz
293:Segovia
281:Logroño
168:Sevilla
152:Granada
148:Córdoba
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396:Murcia
389:Zamora
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188:Teruel
184:Huesca
175:Aragon
164:Málaga
156:Huelva
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273:Ávila
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