Simancas
| Town in the province of Valladolid, Spain, on the River Pisuerga; population (1991) 2,000. The national archives have been kept in its citadel since 1563. |
| Simancas was designated the home of the national archives by Cardinal Ximénez at the beginning of the 16th century. |
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