Joanna the Mad of Castile was a key figure in the struggle for control of 16th Century Spain.
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Dr. Bronner's best-selling product, a bottle of all-purpose liquid hemp peppermint Castile soap, is not your run-of-the mill cleanser.
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For Catalans, Aragonese, Galicians and Basques, it was an amalgam of which Castile, the imperial centre, was just one part.
Louis, Blanche of Castile, Philip the Fair, hundreds of thousands of others.
In 1469, Isabella of Castile married Ferdinand II of Aragon, thus uniting almost all the Christian dominions of Spain under one monarchy.
The flag of Rocamadour flew over the battle of Navas de Tolosa, when the Moors were routed by the army of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
Meanwhile, Castile La Mancha has become the fifth of Spain's 17 regional governments to say that it will draw on a rescue fund set up by Madrid.
Several exhibitions commemorating the anniversary of his death have been mounted this year in Castile, Philip's home base, and more will open over the next 18 months.
The core of today's Spain first came together as a political entity in 1469 when the marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand united the two houses of Castile and Aragon.
Castile-La Mancha's pharmacies are just one example.
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Washing with Castile soap and icy water, he worried over his scrawniness, his spindle shins, the green yarns of vein in his forearms, his face so thin that his zygomatic bones and jaw shaped harps underneath his ginger-brown, one-inch beard and mustache.
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