Editing Province of Valladolid (section)

== History ==
{{Main|Vaccaei|Crown of Castile}}
[[File:Vaceos224.jpg|thumb|left|Map of the territory of the [[Vaccaei]], the first people with stable presence on the sector of the middle valley of the [[Douro River]] documented in historical times.]]
[[File:Comuneros.jpg|thumb|left|Execution of the captains of the comuneros in [[Villalar de los Comuneros|Villalar]] in 1521, during the [[Revolt of the Comuneros]].]]
[[File:RUIDIAZ(1893) 1.083 JUAN PONCE DE LEÓN.jpg|thumb|left|[[Juan Ponce de León]] ([[Santervás de Campos]]). He was one of the first Europeans to arrive to the current United States since he led the first European expedition to [[Florida]], which he named.]]
[[File:Provincia de Valladolid loc 1590.svg|thumb|right|Province of Valladolid in 1590 ([[Crown of Castile]]).]]

The province of Valladolid was established as such by the [[Royal Decree]] of 29 September 1833 driven by the minister [[Javier de Burgos]], being attached to the historic region of [[Old Castile]].

The first stable population that settled in the present province were the pre-Roman [[Vaccaei]] people (Spanish name: vacceos, the area that they inhabited is called "Región Vaccea") who belonged to a very advanced culture when the rest of the [[Celts|Celtic]] peoples arrived in the peninsula from the north of Europe (there is evidence that indicates that they also occupied territories corresponding to other provinces). By then, it was already defined for the chronicles as a region "free and discovered" and "an open country, wheat fields, deforested land" and the vacceos were involved in livestock farming and especially agriculture (cereals).

In the year 178 BC, the Romans conquered the territory. Thus the lands that make up the current province came under their occupation, up to the barbarian invasions of the early fifth century AD when the province came under the control of the new [[Visigothic Kingdom]].

After the invasion of the Iberian peninsula by the Muslims in the year 711, the Muslims arrived in these lands just a year later, in 712. Later, during the [[Reconquista]], this area was the subject of battles between the Muslims and the Christian [[Kingdom of León]] in the first half of the eleventh century. In 939, after the [[Battle of Simancas]] clinched the domain of the basin of the [[Douro river]] by the Christian kingdoms. [[Valladolid]] was founded in the year 1072 by Count Pedro Ansúrez. From here its history was linked to that of the [[Crown of Castile]]. In fact, cities such as [[Medina del Campo]] or [[Valladolid]] became important administrative centers Castilians and also experienced an economic boom ([[mesta]], [[fair]]s ... ).

Had a great importance in the [[Voyages of Christopher Columbus|Discovery of the Americas]] in 1492 ([[Christopher Columbus]] will end up living the last years of his life until his death in 1506 in Valladolid) and the subsequent [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|colonization]] with explorers such as [[Juan Ponce de León]] -discoverer of the [[Florida]] (United States)-. In fact, in some houses of [[Tordesillas]], was signed the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]] which decided to the cast of the New World between the [[Catholic Monarchs]] and the Kingdom of Portugal giving rise to [[Latin America]].

The [[revolt of the comuneros]] in the year 1520, which ended with the ringleaders of that revolt publicly executed in [[Villalar de los Comuneros]]. Valladolid became the capital of the Spanish empire between the years 1601–1606. When the Spanish Empire began to decline due to the continuing wars in which this involved and the emergence of new emerging powers, there was an economic decline in the area, as in the rest of the Spanish monarchy. During the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1700–1715) It positioned the side of the Bourbon pretender, that would be the one who got the throne. In the [[Peninsular War]] against France (1808–1814), there were a succession of small battles and the continued action of guerrillas as "[[Juan Martín Díez|The Undaunted]]".

In the [[Spanish Civil War]] (1936–1939) Valladolid was the "most significant regional nucleus" of [[FET y de las JONS|Falangism]] in the [[Spanish Second Republic]], garnering the second-highest provincial vote for the party in the otherwise dismal (for Falangists) [[Spanish general election, 1936|elections of 1936]], just behind Cadiz.<ref>Payne, S.G. ''The Franco Regime, 1936–1975.'' Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1987. p 65.</ref> The province was controlled by Franco's Nationalists throughout the [[Spanish Civil War|Civil War]]. During the [[Francoist Spain|Franco period]] there was an exodus from the rural countryside to the industrial cities.  A further exodus occurred with the arrival of democracy in Spain (early 1980s), when the province was made part of the new autonomous community of [[Castile and Leon]].

Start a process of economic growth that peaked with the [[Spanish property bubble]] and then suffers from the [[Great Recession|economic crisis of 2008-2015]], like the rest of the south of Europe. Subsequently, there was a certain economic growth until 2020, when the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] caused the declaration of a [[COVID-19 pandemic in Spain|state of alarm throughout Spain]], resulting in a strong economic standstill. After the lifting of the confinement measures, economic activity was reactivated.