Estremadura
Americannoun
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Below Toledo, for a full 150 mi. along the rolling hills of Estremadura to M�rida, again no formal line exists, but there is no unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hopeful peasants are forsaking such dirt-poor regions as Andalusia or Estremadura for the industrial cities, where there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were many motivations for these journeys: ambition, greed, national pride, religious fanaticism, prison pardons, scientific curiosity, the thirst for adventure and the unavailability of suitable employment in Estremadura.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
In point of fact he was in the neighbourhood of Cape Blanco, or nearly 250 miles south of Cape St. Vincent, where he hoped to pass over on his way to Estremadura.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
We took an evening train on to C�ceres ten miles away, for its hotels sounded inviting; and a second happy day, a holy and tranquil Domingo de Resurrecci�n, gave us another memory of Estremadura.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
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