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
Valencia and Murcia, where crop follows crop in prodigal fruitfulness are the antithesis of desolate Estremadura, and of that immortal desert of Don Quixote the denuded steppes of New Castile, to their north.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
We had taken the trip into Estremadura to see the Roman remains, the best in the Peninsula.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
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 O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
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