Andalusia Andalusia Andalusia (; ) is an autonomous community in southern Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community 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 is the city of Seville (Spanish: "Sevilla"). Andalusia is located in a privileged area in the south of the Iberian peninsula, in south-western Europe, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia
Four Kingdoms of Andalusia almost exactly the same territory as the present day Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. The name was used in some contexts at least since the middle of the 18th century. Some works and documents that use the designation are the "Juzgados militares de España y sus Indias" (1792), the "Prontuario de las leyes y decretos del Rey nuestro Señor Don José Napoleon I" (1810), and "Breves tratados de esfera y geografía universal" (1833), among many others. Four Kingdoms of Andalusia The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia (Spanish: "cuatro reinos de Andalucía" or, in 18th-century orthography, "quatro reynos del Andaluzia") was a