{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Kingdom of León",
  "now": "spain",
  "years": "910–1230",
  "id": "leon",
  "index": "c/spain:910",
  "title": "Royal Banner of the Kingdom of León",
  "ratio": "1:2",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Argent field."
    },
    {
      "color": "purple",
      "hex": "#5a0071",
      "cmyk": "50/100/0/56",
      "note": "Purpure rampant lion — the canting arms of León (\"lion\")."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Kingdom of León (910–1230) was a medieval Iberian Christian kingdom that, alongside Castile and Aragon, drove the Reconquista\n - **Construction:** a white swallowtail banner charged with a purple **rampant lion** — a rare heraldic use of purple, canting on the kingdom's Latin name **legio** (\"legion\") popularly misread as \"leo\" (lion)\n - United with Castile in 1230 under Ferdinand III, forming the Crown of Castile",
  "flag": "empires/leon.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Kingdom of León",
    "officialName": "Regnum Legionense",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Claimed descent from the Visigothic Kingdom of Asturias; some historians consider it the direct heir of the Roman legio VII Gemina\n - The lion remains on today's Spanish coat of arms (quartered with Castile's castle)\n - León's **Cortes** of 1188 is argued by UNESCO to be Europe's first parliament",
  "_name": "Kingdom of León",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "leon"
}