#autonomous community

• Andalusia — An autonomous community located in southern Spain, being the most populated and the second largest in the country, with its historical and administrative capital in Seville. The region is globally recognized for its fascinating cultural heritage, influenced by centuries of coexistence among Christian, Moorish, and Jewish cultures, being the birthplace of flamenco music and housing monuments of exceptional universal value such as the Alhambra in Granada.
• Aragon — An autonomous community located in northeastern Spain, historically corresponding to the ancient Kingdom of Aragon, which played a central geopolitical role in the medieval period and the unification of the Iberian Peninsula. In world literary history, the name is also closely linked to the French writer Louis Aragon (1897–1982), a major figure of surrealism and socialist realism.
• Asturias — An autonomous community and historical province located in northern Spain, on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea, officially named the Principality of Asturias (Principado de Asturias). This mountainous and structurally isolated region is historically recognized as the nucleus of Christian resistance during the Moorish invasion, being the location where the Reconquista movement began under King Pelagius in the year 722; the title 'Prince of Asturias' is traditionally held by the heir to the Spanish throne.
• Self-governing community — A rare sociological and political term designating a community, a population, or a faction of a people that self-governs, organizes itself autonomously, or establishes on its own its democratic structures and internal rules of cohabitation, without executive or legislative enforcement from a central state nucleus.