Merindad

[1] The officer in charge of a merindad was called a merino, roughly equivalent to the English count or bailiff.Connected to the birth of Castile, the Merindades, standing for a northernmost comarca of the province of Burgos, was part of the creation of the administrative division by King Peter.[2] Currently, the Foral Community of Navarre is still divided into five merindades standing for different judicial districts.[2] The historic Merindad de Ultrapuertos lying to the north of the Pyrenees is nowadays Lower Navarre.In Biscay, the mancomunidades comarcales keep the place of the old merindades, such as Duranguesado.
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