page_title: Province of Villafranca
hierarchical_section_title: Province of Villafranca
caption_attribution_description: English: Territorial division of Spain proposed in 1822 during the Trienio Liberal. The colored regions here properly date from 1833, not 1822. They are used here just to enable easy comparison of the maps.
context_page_description: The Province of Villafranca was a province of Spain created in the 1822 territorial division of Spain, during the Trienio Liberal of 1820–1823. Its population of 86,365 represented 0.7% of the total Spanish population of the time. Its capital was Villafranca del Bierzo. With the restoration of absolutism, this territorial division was revoked 1 October 1823. Although Javier de Burgos's 1833 territorial division of Spain was very close to that of 1822, the province of Villafranca was not recreated; the other two major changes were the omission of the provinces of Calatayud and Játiva.
context_section_description: The Province of Villafranca (also known as Province of Villafranca del Bierzo, Province of El Bierzo, or Province of El Vierzo) was a province of Spain created in the 1822 territorial division of Spain (27 January 1822), during the Trienio Liberal of 1820–1823. Its population of 86,365 represented 0.7% of the total Spanish population of the time. Its capital was Villafranca del Bierzo. With the restoration of absolutism, this territorial division was revoked 1 October 1823. Although Javier de Burgos's 1833 territorial division of Spain was very close to that of 1822, the province of Villafranca was not recreated; the other two major changes were the omission of the provinces of Calatayud and Játiva.
caption: Map of the 1822 territorial division of Spain, which included the Province of Villafranca. On this map it is at the upper leftmost of the four orange provinces making up the region of León.
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