Andalusia is one of the 17 communities autonomous communities that make up Spain. It was established in 1979, although it was not until 1981 when the Statute of Autonomy. Of course, its history is quite old.
If we go back to the 19th century, the Junta de Andalucía itself mentions on its website as the origin of Andalusian autonomy the revolutionary uprising of the Topete of Cadiz, in which “greater democracy and decentralization were claimed”. If we advance a little further in time we arrive at the 20th century and there stands out the important figure of blas infant, called ‘father of the Andalusian homeland’.
It was Infante who, in 1919, signed the Andalusian Manifesto of Córdoba together with several members of the so-called Andalusian Centers. In this manifesto Andalusia was spoken of “as a national reality”, indicates the institution itself. Blas Infante was a thinker, politician, writer, historian and musicologist, and he was also the one who recovered the Andalusian flag as the Andalusian flag, marking white and green as the colors of this land. The coat of arms and the Andalusian anthem were also the work of his hand, who created an entire Andalusian movement before being shot in 1936.
After the Franco dictatorship, December 4, 1977 More than a million and a half Andalusians took to the streets to demand their autonomy, achieving the pre-autonomy granted to Andalusia in April 1978. In this way, the Junta de Andalucía was constituted in 1979 and on February 28, 1980 it was called an autonomy referendum that triumphed in all the provinces except Almería.
“After intense debates, the modification of the Organic Law of referendum modalities allows Andalusian autonomy to be unlocked, which is completed with the approval of the Statute of Autonomy again in a referendum”, they explain from the Junta de Andalucía. The status It was definitively approved in 1981.
How many provinces does Andalusia have?
In the Andalusian statute, the points of the statute and other concepts such as the number of provinces are clear: there are eight Y the Andalusian capital is Seville. These are the provinces, in alphabetical order: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville.
By population, Seville is the province with the most registered inhabitants, with almost two million people according to the 2021 census. It is followed by Malaga, which has almost 1.7 million people registered. Then comes Cádiz, with just over 1.2 million people, and Granada, with 921,000 registered people.
The least populated provinces are Almería, with 731,000 people; Jaén, with less than 630,000 people, and Huelva, with just over half a million people registered throughout the province.
Source: Lasexta
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