Castile or Castilia or Castilla may refer to:
- Places in Spain
- Other places
- Castilla de Oro, an old name for a region in Central America
- Castilla, Sorsogon, 3rd class municipality in Philippines
- Castile, New York, both a village and a town located in Wyoming County, New York. A former kingdom, Castile (Castilla kasˈt̪iʎa or) gradually merged with its neighbors to become the Crown of Castile and later the Kingdom of Spain Old Castile ( Castilla la Vieja) is a historic region of Spain, which included territory that later corresponded to the provinces of politically Santander (now Kingdom of Castile was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. The Crown of Castile, as a historic entity is usually considered to have begun in 1230 with the third and definitive union of the two kingdoms of León and Castile Castile-La Mancha ( Spanish "Castilla-La Mancha" is an autonomous community of Spain. Castile and León (Castilla y León known formally as the Community of Castile and León is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. Castilla de Oro (or del Oro) was the name given by the Spanish settlers at the beginning of the Sixteenth century to the Central American territories Castilla is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Sorsogon, Philippines. Castile New York refers to a Village and a Town located in Wyoming County New York. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan Wyoming County is a County located in the US state of New York.
- Ships
- Castilla, a Spanish Navy cruiser that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. Technical Characteristics Castilla was built at Cadiz, Spain.
- People
- Botany and Zoology
- Castilia (butterfly), a butterfly genus
- Castilla (plant), a tree genus belonging to the family Moraceae
- Other uses
See also
- Castella, a sponge cake, specialty of Nagasaki, thought to be originally from Spain
- Castilian
Brooke Castile (born on May 31, 1986 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American pairs figure skater. Castilla (sometimes incorrectly spelled Castilloa) is a tree Genus belonging to the family Moraceae found native in Central America Real Madrid Castilla is a Spanish football team that plays in the ''Segunda División B''. Castile soap is a name used in English -speaking countries for Soap made exclusively from Vegetable oil (as opposed to animal fat although many soapmaking Castella or Kasutera (カステラ is a popular Japanese Sponge cake made of Sugar, Flour, eggs, and Starch Castilian is a noun and adjective that refers to the region and former kingdom of Castile in Spain; in particular it may refer to a native person
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