New Castile

These innumerable pastures and wheat-fields are in New Castile, and before long more distinctively they are in La Mancha, the country dear to fame as the home of Don Quixote.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

We were going northward over the track which had brought us southward to Madrid two weeks before, and by and by the pleasant levels broke into rough hills and hollows, strewn with granite boulders which, as our train mounted, changed into the savage rock masses of New Castile, and as we drew near the village of Escorial gave the scene the look of that very desolate country.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

And I, Pero Sancho, Scrivener general of these kingdoms of New Castile and secretary of the governor Francisco Pizarro, by his order and that of the officials of H.M. wrote it just as things happened, and when it was finished I read it in the presence of the governor and of the officials of H.M., and, as it was all true, they said governor and officials of H.M. sign it with their hand.

Relación de la conquista del Perú. English Pedro Sancho 1918

Madrid is one of the five provinces into which New Castile is divided: area 3084 square miles; pop. (in 1900), 775,036.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

After some hesitation the superiors took up the idea, and a suitable site having been found, the first "desert" was inaugurated 28 June, 1592, at Bolarque, on the banks of the Tagus in New Castile.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

A renowned cardinal, general, and statesman; b. about 1310 at Cuenca in New Castile; d.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Toledo, New Castile, Spain, in its gorgeous cathedral enshrines a statue of the Blessed Virgin in a chapel of jasper, ornamented with magnificent and unique treasures.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

This monarch began to reunite the estates of his father, and carried the war of reconquest beyond the mountain chain of the Carpentano-Vetónica, capturing Madrid and Toledo, and thus laying the foundations of New Castile.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Philip II, and is one of the historic monuments of New Castile.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Soon after his arrival orders came from Madrid warning the alcaldes of every village in New Castile to be on the look out for the tall, white - haired heretic, of whom an exact description was given, who to-day was in one place and to-morrow twenty leagues distant.

The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912