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,
Name of Andalusia to refer those territories still under the Moorish rule until then, and generally south of Castilla Nueva and Valencia, and corresponding with the former Roman province hitherto called Baetica in Latin sources. This was a Castilianization of "Al-Andalusiya", the adjectival form of the Arabic word "al-Andalus". The name "Andalusia" or "Vandalusia" is traditionally believed to be derived from "Vandal", the Germanic tribe that briefly colonized parts of Iberia, from 409 to 429. That derivation goes back to the 13th-century "De rebus Hispaniae" but has been viewed critically from the 18th century. Reinhart Dozy (1860) recognized its shortcomings but still accepted