Estremadura

American  

[es-tre-mah-thoo-rah] / ˌɛs trɛ mɑˈðu rɑ /

Or Extremadura

noun

1. a region in W Spain, formerly a province.

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

Don Francisco Joseph de Obando, a native of Caceres, in Estremadura, had arrived in the South Sea with a squadron, and was in Lima when the great earthquake happened, by which Callao was swallowed up.

From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol II (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Zuniga, Martinez de

But as the rock-ramparts of the Castiles and Northern Estremadura are approached, our speckled friend again appears.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.