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United Castile or the Great Castile are political concepts used by the Castilian nationalists to define a geographic space considered to be the political territory of Castile and her jurisdiction. The Castilian nationalists aspire to unify and merge the Spanish autonomous regions of Cantabria, Castile-La Mancha, Castile and León, Madrid and La Rioja into a single united territory called Castile. They consider all this territory to be their national motherland and also consider the current situation of political division to be unfair and erroneous. Castilian nationalism claims that Castile be declared Historic nationality within the political and regional framework of Spain and Madrid be the Capital city of the new unified territory.
Within this proposal, there are two different political currents:
Some movements with ethnicist bias have recently appeared, however they remain insignificant and minority within the political regional outlook of Spain.