The
region of León or
Leonese region (
Leonese:
rexón de Llïón, and ) is a historic territory defined by the
1833 Spanish administrative organisation. The Leonese region encompassed the
provinces of
Salamanca,
Zamora, and
León, now part of the modern
Spanish autonomous community of
Castile and León. As is the case with other
historical regions, and continuing with centuries of history, the inhabitants of the leonese region are all called leoneses. Even today, according with official autonomous government, the historical territorial adjective is used in addition with the modern annexed territory, the rest of
Old Castile, being "castilians and leoneses".