This map was created by Spanish cartographer Tomás López de Vargas Machuca in 1779 and published posthumously by his sons in the “Geographical Atlas of Spain” from 1804. The map depicts the Province of Valladolid with the territorial boundaries prior to the provincial administrative reform carried out by Javier de Burgos in 1833.
The former Province of Valladolid covered a large area and was made up of many enclaves, making it one of the most territorially complex provinces. The author himself describes on the map that he took several liberties when determining which towns belonged to each district, in order to simplify the representation of the province. Of all the districts named by López de Vargas, only the following constituted a district in the Marqués de Ensenada census of 1759:
- Valladolid match
- Benavente match
- Medina de Rioseco match
- Medina de Campo match
- Puebla de Sanabria match
- Portillo match
- Simancas match
- Peñafiel match
- Viana del Bollo match
- Olmedo match
- Tordesillas match
- Torrelobatón match
- Admiral's Wheel Party
- Mayorga match
- Palenzuela match
- Mansilla match
Given its complexity, the province bordered more provinces and kingdoms than any other in Castile: to the north, the Province of León and the Province of Palencia, to the east the Province of Burgos and the Province of Segovia, to the south the Province of Ávila and to the west the Province of Toro and the Province of Zamora, as well as the Kingdom of Galicia and the Kingdom of Portugal.
Many of the territories that belonged to the Province of Valladolid became part of other provinces after the territorial reorganisation of 1833: Province of Orense (Viana del Bollo and La Mezquita), Province of Zamora (Benavente and its districts and Puebla de Sanabria), Province of León (Rueda de Almirante and Mansilla) and Province of Palencia (Castromocho and Palenzuela).
You can read more about Tomás López and his atlas in this article from the newsletter: Tomás López and the first detailed atlas of Spain (1804).
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