Leonese People
Leonese, Spanish, Mirandese
Roman Catholicism, Atheism, Agnosticism
Galicians, Asturians, Castilians and others Spanish peoples.
The Leonese (Leonese: Llïoneses, Spanish: Leoneses) are an ethnic group whose homeland is the former Kingdom of León, now known as region of Leon. This area was formerly a country in Southwestern Europe that covered a territory in northwestern Spain and northeastern Portugal.
The Leonese Kingdom was an independent country in the Middle Ages, keeping its status as a kingdom under the Spanish rule until the 1833 territorial division of Spain. The languages of León are the Leonese language and Spanish in Spain and the Leonese language and Portuguese in Portugal. A variety of Leonese called Mirandese is spoken in the Mirando del Douro Region of Portugal.
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