Seville (Parliament of Andalusia constituency) Seville (Parliament of Andalusia constituency) Seville () is one of the eight constituencies () represented in the Parliament of Andalusia, the regional legislature of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. The constituency currently elects 18 deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish province of Seville. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of 3 percent. The constituency was created as per the Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia of 1981 and was first contested in the 1982 regional election. The Statute provided for the eight provinces in Andalusia—Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada,
Flamenco century. One theory, proposed by Andalusian historian and nationalist Blas Infante in his 1933 book "Orígenes de lo Flamenco y Secreto del Cante Jondo" suggested that the word "flamenco" comes in fact from the Hispano-Arabic term "fellah mengu", meaning "expelled peasant". This term referred to the many Andalusians of the Islamic faith, the Moriscos who remained, and in order to avoid religious persecution, joined with the Roma newcomers. Another theory is that the Spanish word "flamenco" could have been a derivative of the Spanish word "flama", meaning "fire" or "flame". The word "flamenco" may have come to be used for