Estremadura
Americannoun
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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
The next ten miles were indeed the proverbial desolation of Estremadura; hardly an inhabitant was to be found on those bleak hills.
From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
On the 20th of September, he arrived at Yuste, in Estremadura.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
Doctor Don Francisco La Sande, born at Caceres in Estremadura, and Oidor of Mexico, took possession of this government on the 24th of August 1575.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga
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