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Castile and León ( Leonese : " Castiella y Llión " ) is an autonomous ___MASK100___ in north - western Spain . It was constituted in 1983 , although it existed for the first ___MASK6___ during the First Spanish Republic in the 19th century . León first appeared as a Kingdom in 910 , whilst the Kingdom of Castile gained an independent identity in 1065 and was intermittently held in personal union with León before merging with it permanently in 1230 . It is the largest autonomous ___MASK100___ in Spain and the third largest region of the European Union , covering an area of with an official population of around 2 . 5 million ( 2011 ). The Atlantic ___MASK80___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Biscay ( in Basque and officially Bizkaia and in Spanish Vizcaya ) is a ___MASK92___ located just south of the Bay of Biscay . The name also refers to a historical territory of the Basque Country , heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay . Its capital city is Bilbao . It is one of the most prosperous and important provinces of Spain as a result of the massive industrialization in the last years of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century . Since the deep deindustrialization of the 1970s , the economy has come to rely more on the services sector . Lugo is a ___MASK42___ in northwestern Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia . It is the capital of the province of Lugo . The municipality had a population of 98 , 560 in 2014 , which makes it the fourth most populous ___MASK42___ in Galicia . Cantabria is a Spanish historical ___MASK100___ and autonomous ___MASK100___ with Santander as its ___MASK78___ ___MASK42___ . It is bordered on the east by the Basque Autonomous Community ( province of Biscay ), on the south by Castile and León ( provinces of León , Palencia and Burgos ), on the west by the Principality of Asturias , and on the north by the Cantabrian ___MASK86___ ( ___MASK22___ of Biscay ). In the ___MASK36___ of Europe , the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century . It began with the fall of the Western Roman ___MASK29___ and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery . The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western ___MASK36___ : classical antiquity , the medieval period , and the modern period . The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early , High , and Late Middle Ages . The Celtic ___MASK86___ (; ) is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded to the east by Saint George ' s Channel ; other limits include the Bristol Channel , the English Channel , and the ___MASK22___ of Biscay , as well as adjacent portions of Wales , Cornwall , Devon , and Brittany . The southern and western boundaries are delimited by the continental shelf , which drops away sharply . The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of small islands in the sea . Ortegal is a ___MASK77___ in the Galician Province of A Coruña , Spain . The overall population of this local region is 15 , 810 ( 2005 ). The ___MASK22___ of Biscay ( Basque : " Bizkaiko Golkoa ," ) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea . It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border , and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal . Asturias , officially the ___MASK32___ of Asturias , is an autonomous ___MASK100___ in north - west Spain . It is coextensive with the ___MASK28___ of Asturias , and contains some of the territory that was part of the larger Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages . Divided into ___MASK59___ " comarcas " ( counties ), the autonomous ___MASK100___ of Asturias is bordered by Cantabria to the east , by Castile and León to the south , by Galicia to the west , and by the ___MASK22___ of Biscay to the north . The Kingdom of Asturias was a kingdom in the Iberian ___MASK70___ founded in 718 by the nobleman Pelagius of Asturias . It was the first ___MASK11___ political entity established after the Umayyad conquest of Visigoth Hispania in 718 or 722 . That year , Pelagius defeated an Umayyad patrol at the Battle of Covadonga , in what is usually regarded as the beginning of the Reconquista . The Kingdom of Asturias transitioned into the Kingdom of León in 924 , when Fruela II of Asturias became king with his royal ___MASK35___ in León . France , officially the French ___MASK3___ , is a country with ___MASK17___ in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of France extends from the Mediterranean ___MASK86___ to the English Channel and the North ___MASK86___ , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American ___MASK53___ and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . France spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . Lugo is a ___MASK28___ of northwestern Spain , in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia . It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense , Pontevedra , and A Coruña , the principality of Asturias , the ___MASK90___ of León , and in the north by the Cantabrian ___MASK86___ ( ___MASK22___ of Biscay ) . The population is 356 , 595 ( 2006 ) , of whom a quarter live in the capital Lugo . The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh ( see Lyon ) , later Latinised as Lucus Augusti , and which became one of the three main important Galician - Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta ( modern Braga and Astorga respectively ) . The ___MASK28___ has 67 municipalities . Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a ___MASK96___ largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean ___MASK86___ and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran ___MASK86___ near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean ___MASK86___ except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the ___MASK22___ of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla .