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Extremadura

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Extremadura (is an autonomous community of western Iberian Peninsula whose capital city is Mérida, recognised by the State of Autonomy of Extremadura. It is made up of the two largest provinces of Spain: Cáceres and Badajoz. It is bordered by the provinces of Salamanca and Ávila (Castile and León) to the north; by provinces of Toledo and Ciudad Real (Castile–La Mancha) to the east, and by the provinces of Huelva, Seville, and Córdoba (Andalusia) to the south; and by Portugal to the west. Its official language is Spanish. It is an important area for wildlife, particularly with the major reserve at Monfragüe, which was designated a National Park in 2007, and the International Tagus River Natural Park (Parque Natural Tajo Internacional). The government of Extremadura is called. The Day of Extremadura is celebrated on 8 September. It coincides with the Catholic festivity of Our Lady of Guadalupe. [1]

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Acorn

The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).

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Adelardo Rodríguez

Adelardo Rodríguez Sánchez, usually referred to simply as Adelardo (born 26 September 1939 in Badajoz) is a former Spanish footballer.

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Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus (الأنْدَلُس, trans.; al-Ándalus; al-Ândalus; al-Àndalus; Berber: Andalus), also known as Muslim Spain, Muslim Iberia, or Islamic Iberia, was a medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal.

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Alagón (river)

The Alagón is a 205 km long river in Spain, right tributary to the Tagus, as well as this river's longest tributary.

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Alberto Porro Carmona

Alberto Porro Carmona (born 17 October 1980) is a Spanish conductor, composer, author, lecturer, teacher and saxophonist.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque (Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil; Arawageeki; Vakêêke; Gołgéeki) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Alburquerque, Badajoz

Alburquerque is a town in the province of Badajoz in Spain.

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Alfonso IX of León

Alfonso IX (15 August 117123 or 24 September 1230) was king of León and Galicia from the death of his father Ferdinand II in 1188 until his own death.

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Almendralejo

Almendralejo is a town in the Province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.

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Almohad Caliphate

The Almohad Caliphate (British English:, U.S. English:; ⵉⵎⵡⴻⵃⵃⴷⴻⵏ (Imweḥḥden), from Arabic الموحدون, "the monotheists" or "the unifiers") was a Moroccan Berber Muslim movement and empire founded in the 12th century.

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Almonte (river)

The Almonte is a river in Spain.

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Alonso de Sotomayor

Alonso de Sotomayor y Valmediano (1545–1610) was a Spanish conquistador from Extremadura, and a Royal Governor of Chile.

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Amazon River

The Amazon River (or; Spanish and Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest.

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is an autonomous community in southern Spain.

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Area

Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional figure or shape, or planar lamina, in the plane.

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Assembly of Extremadura

The Assembly of Extremadura (Spanish: Asamblea de Extremadura, Asamblea d’Estremaúra; also called Parlamento de Extremadura) is the elected unicameral legislature of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma, autonomia erkidegoa, comunitat autònoma, comunidade autónoma, comunautat autonòma) is a first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Aztec Empire

The Aztec Empire, or the Triple Alliance (Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥), began as an alliance of three Nahua altepetl city-states: italic, italic, and italic.

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Óliver Torres

Óliver Torres Muñoz (born 10 November 1994), known simply as Óliver, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club FC Porto.

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Badajoz

Badajoz (formerly written Badajos in English) is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain.

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Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, known in Arab history as the Battle of Al-Uqab (معركة العقاب), took place on 16 July 1212 and was an important turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.

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Bebe (singer)

María Nieves Rebolledo Vila, better known by her stage name Bebe (born May 9, 1978) is a Spanish singer, songwriter, and actress who rose to international fame with the singles "Malo" and "Ella".

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Benito Arias Montano

Benito Arias Montano (or Benedictus Arias Montanus; 1527–1598) was a Spanish orientalist and editor of the Antwerp Polyglot.

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Black Iberian pig

The Iberian pig is a traditional breed of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) that is native to the Iberian Peninsula.

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Caliphate of Córdoba

The Caliphate of Córdoba (خلافة قرطبة; trans. Khilāfat Qurṭuba) was a state in Islamic Iberia along with a part of North Africa ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Carolina Coronado

Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada (December 12, 1820 – January 15, 1911) was a Spanish author considered the equivalent of contemporary Romantic authors like Rosalía de Castro.

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Castúo

Castúo is the generic name for the dialects of Spanish spoken in the autonomous community of Extremadura, in Spain.

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Castile and León

Castile and León (Castilla y León; Leonese: Castiella y Llión; Castela e León) is an autonomous community in north-western Spain.

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Castilla–La Mancha

Castilla–La Mancha (or Castile–La Mancha) is an autonomous community of Spain.

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Cáceres, Spain

Cáceres is the capital of Cáceres province, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain.

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César Sánchez

César Sánchez Domínguez (born 2 September 1971), sometimes known as simply César, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Cedillo

Cedillo (Casalinho in Portuguese) is a town and municipality in Spain, located in the province of Cáceres, community of Extremadura.

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CF Extremadura

Club de Fútbol Extremadura was a Spanish football team based in Almendralejo, in the autonomous community of Extremadura.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Comarcas of Spain

In Spain traditionally and historically, some autonomous communities are also divided into comarcas (sing. comarca).

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Congress of Deputies

The Congress of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados; Diputatuen Kongresua; Congrés dels Diputats; Congreso dos Deputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

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Constitutional monarchy

A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign exercises authority in accordance with a written or unwritten constitution.

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Continental climate

Continental climates are defined in the Köppen climate classification as having the coldest month with the temperature never rising above 0.0° C (32°F) all month long.

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Devolution

Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.

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Don Benito

Don Benito is a Spanish town and municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, near the left bank of the Guadiana river.

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Douro

The Douro (Douro; Duero; translation) is one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, flowing from its source near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province across northern-central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Porto.

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Dulce Chacón

Dulce Chacón (Zafra, Badajoz, Spain, June 6, 1954 – Madrid, December 3, 2003) was a Spanish poet, novelist and playwright.

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Eduardo Naranjo

Eduardo Naranjo is a celebrated Spanish painter, born in 1944 in Monesterio, in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.

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Elisa Herrero Uceda

Elisa Herrero Uceda (Ceclavín, Cáceres, Spain, 1957) is a Spanish writer.

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Emilio Santos Corchero

Emilio Santos Corchero, born 7 October 1935 (San Vicente de Alcantara, Extremadura, Spain), is a theoretical physicist, professor at the Universities of Costa Rica (1964–68), Valladolid (1968-76) and Cantabria (Spain) (1976-). In the year 1998 he received the Medal of the Spanish Society of Physics.

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Ernesto Valverde

Ernesto Valverde Tejedor (born 9 February 1964) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a forward, and is the current manager of Barcelona.

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Extremadura (Vino de la Tierra)

Extremadura is a Spanish geographical indication for Vino de la Tierra wines located in the autonomous region of Extremadura.

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Extremadura UD

Extremadura Unión Deportiva is a Spanish football team based in Almendralejo, in the autonomous community of Extremadura.

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Extremadura UD Femenino

Extremadura Unión Deportiva Femenino, formerly known as CF Puebla Extremadura and later as Extremadura Femenino CF, is a Spanish women football club from Almendralejo.

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Extremaduran cuisine

Extremadura, Spain is known for its different ways of preparing the Iberian pork and mutton.

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Extremaduran language

Extremaduran (autonym: estremeñu, represents a variable vowel -->) is a Romance linguistic variety, spoken by several hundred thousand people in Spain, in an area covering the north-western part of the autonomous community of Extremadura and adjoining areas in the province of Salamanca.

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Extremoduro

Extremoduro are a Spanish hard rock band from Plasencia, Extremadura.

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Fala language

Fala ("Speech", also called Xalimego) is a Romance language commonly classified in the Portuguese-Galician subgroup, with some traits from Leonese, spoken in Spain by about 10,500 people, of whom 5,500 live in a valley of the northwestern part of Extremadura near the border with Portugal.

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Ferdinand II of Aragon

Ferdinand II (Ferrando, Ferran, Errando, Fernando) (10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), called the Catholic, was King of Sicily from 1468 and King of Aragon from 1479 until his death.

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Fernando Morientes

Fernando Morientes Sánchez (born 5 April 1976) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker, and is a current manager.

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Francisco de Orellana

Francisco de Orellana (1511 – November 1546) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

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Francisco de Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter.

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Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola

Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola Gómez (1917-1978) was a Spanish scholar and a Carlist politician.

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Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro González (– 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.

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Galician-Portuguese

Galician-Portuguese (galego-portugués or galaico-portugués, galego-português or galaico-português), also known as Old Portuguese or Medieval Galician, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Gonzalo Pizarro

Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso (1510 – April 10, 1548) was a Spanish conquistador and younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Inca Empire.

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Government of Extremadura

The regional Government of Extremadura (Gobierno de Extremadura; formerly Junta de Extremadura) is the group of institutions ruling the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura.

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Guadalquivir

The Guadalquivir is the fifth longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second longest river with its entire length in Spain.

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Guadarranque

The Guadarranque (Rio Guadarranque) is a short coastal river of Spain in the Andalusian comarca of Campo de Gibraltar in the province of Cádiz.

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Guadiana

The Guadiana River, or Odiana, is an international river defining a long stretch of the Portugal-Spain border, separating Extremadura and Andalucia (Spain) from Alentejo and Algarve (Portugal).

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Guillermo Fernández Vara

Guillermo Fernández Vara (Olivenza, 1958) is a Spanish politician from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party who has been the President of Extremadura since 2015.

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Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto (1495 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas).

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Hernando Pizarro

Hernando Pizarro y de Vargas (born between 1478 and 1508, died 1578) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the Pizarro brothers who ruled over Peru.

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Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

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Herrera de Alcántara

Herrera de Alcántara is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

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Hydrography

Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary purpose of safety of navigation and in support of all other marine activities, including economic development, security and defence, scientific research, and environmental protection.

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe.

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Ibort

Ibort (Ibor) is a village under the local government of the municipality of Sabiñánigo, Alto Gállego, Huesca, Aragon, Spain.

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Inés Suárez

Inés Suárez, (c. 1507–1580) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Conquest of Chile with Pedro de Valdivia, successfully defending Santiago against a Mapuche attack in 1541.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)

The National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE) is the official organisation in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society.

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Jamón ibérico

Jamón ibérico (presunto ibérico), "Iberian ham", is a type of cured ham produced in Spain and Portugal.

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Jálama

The Jálama is a mountain in western Spain.

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Jesús Delgado Valhondo

Jesús Delgado Valhondo (Mérida, Spain, 19 February 1909 – Badajoz, Spain, 23 July 1993) was a spanish poet.

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Jorge Camacho (writer)

Jorge Camacho Cordón (born 18 November 1966, Zafra) is a writer in Esperanto and Spanish.

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José Antonio Pavón Jiménez

José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón (April 22, 1754 in Casatejada, Cáceres, Spain – 1840 in Madrid) was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile.

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José Calderón (basketball)

José Manuel Calderón Borrallo (born September 28, 1981) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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José de Espronceda

José Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado (25 March 1808 – 23 May 1842) was a Romantic Spanish poet, one of the most representative authors of the XIX century.

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José María Gabriel y Galán

José María Gabriel y Galán (28 June 1870, in Frades de la Sierra (Salamanca) - 6 January 1905, in Guijo de Granadilla (Cáceres), España) was a Spanish poet in Castilian and Extremaduran.

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Juan Donoso Cortés

Juan Donoso Cortés, marqués de Valdegamas (6 May 1809 – 3 May 1853) was a Spanish author, conservative and Catholic political theorist, and diplomat.

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Juan Pizarro (conquistador)

Juan Pizarro y Alonso (born c. 1511 in Trujillo; died July 1536) was a Spanish conquistador who accompanied his brothers Francisco, Gonzalo and Hernando Pizarro for the conquest of Peru in 1532.

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Kingdom of Castile

The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla, Regnum Castellae) was a large and powerful state on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.

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La Serena, Chile

La Serena is a city and commune in northern Chile, capital of the Coquimbo Region.

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La Villuerca

La Villuerca, also known as Risco de la Villuerca, Pico la Villuerca and Pico de las Villuercas is the highest peak of the Sierra de Villuercas range, also known as Sierra de Guadalupe.

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Las Hurdes

Las Hurdes (Extremaduran: Las Jurdis) is a comarca in the Sistema Central, at the northern end of the province of Cáceres in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, Spain.

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Las Villuercas

Las Villuercas is a comarca located in the province of Cáceres, western Spain.

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Leonese dialect

Leonese is a set of vernacular Romance dialects spoken in the northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain (the modern provinces of León, Zamora, and Salamanca) and a few adjoining areas in Portugal.

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List of municipalities in Badajoz

This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Badajoz, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain.

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List of municipalities in Cáceres

This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Cáceres in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain.

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List of Presidents of the Extremaduran Assembly

The President of the Extremaduran Assembly is the presiding officer of that legislature.

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Luis Chamizo Trigueros

Luis Florencio Chamizo Trigueros (Guareña (Badajoz), 7 November 1894 –Madrid, 24 December 1945) was a Spanish writer in Castilian and "Castúo", a dialect in Extremadura.

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Luis de Morales

Luis de Morales (1512 – 9 May 1586) was a Spanish painter born in Badajoz, Extremadura.

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Lusitania

Lusitania (Lusitânia; Lusitania) or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where most of modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and part of western Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a part of the province of Salamanca) lie.

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Madrigalejo

Madrigalejo is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

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Manolo (footballer)

Manuel Sánchez Delgado (born 17 January 1965), known as Manolo, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker.

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March (territorial entity)

A march or mark was, in broad terms, a medieval European term for any kind of borderland, as opposed to a notional "heartland".

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Mario Roso de Luna

Mario Roso de Luna (Logrosán, March 15, 1872 – Madrid, November 8, 1931) was a Spanish lawyer, theosophist, journalist, writer, freemason and astrologist.

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Mérida, Spain

Mérida (Extremaduran: Méria) is the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura, western central Spain.

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Medellín

Medellín, officially the Municipality of Medellín (Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of the department of Antioquia.

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Medellín, Spain

Medellín is a village in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, notable as both the birthplace of Hernán Cortés in 1485 and the site of the Battle of Medellín, during the Peninsular War.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Michael López-Alegría

Michael López-Alegría (born May 30, 1958) is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.

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Miguel Herrero Uceda

Miguel Herrero Uceda (born January 24, 1964 in Ceclavín, Cáceres, Spain) is a writer, lecturer and natural scientist committed to the defence of the environment and the conservation of popular traditional culture.

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Monfragüe

Monfragüe (Spanish: Parque Nacional Monfragüe) is a Spanish national park noted for its bird-life.

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Montes de Toledo

The Montes de Toledo are one of the main systems of mountain ranges in the Iberian Peninsula.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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Navalmoral de la Mata

Navalmoral de la Mata is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, western Spain.

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Norte Region, Portugal

Norte (Região Norte,; "North Region") or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisboa, and the third most extensive by area.

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Nueva Extremadura

Nueva Extremadura means "New Extremadura" in Spanish and comes from Extremadura, Spain.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction.

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Olivenza

Olivenza or Olivença is a town situated on a disputed section of the Portugal–Spain border.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe in Extremadura

The shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe was the most important Marian shrine in the medieval kingdom of Castile.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Paco Herrera

Francisco "Paco" Herrera Lorenzo (born 2 December 1953) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and is the current manager of Greek club Aris Thessaloniki FC.

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Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, ca. 1485 – Guadalajara, New Spain, 4 July 1541) was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala.

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Pedro de Valdivia

Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva (April 17, 1497 – December 25, 1553) was a Spanish missionary and the first Cardinal of Chile.

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Pedro Duque

Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer, currently serving as Spain's Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities.

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Plasencia

Plasencia is a walled market city in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Western Spain.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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President of Extremadura

The President of Extremadura is the head of government of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura.

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Province of Ávila

Ávila is a province of central-western Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Province of Badajoz

The province of Badajoz is a province of western Spain located in the autonomous community of Extremadura.

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Province of Cáceres

The province of Cáceres is a province of western Spain, and makes up the northern half of the autonomous community of Extremadura.

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Province of Córdoba (Spain)

Córdoba, also called Cordova in English, is a province of southern Spain, in the north-central part of the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Province of Ciudad Real

The province of Ciudad Real (Royal City) is a province in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

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Province of Huelva

Huelva is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Province of Salamanca

Salamanca is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León (Castilla y León).

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Province of Seville

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Province of Toledo

Toledo is a province of central Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha.

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Provinces of Spain

Spain and its autonomous communities are divided into fifty provinces (provincias,; sing. provincia).

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Rafael Gordillo

Rafael Gordillo Vázquez (born 24 February 1957) is a Spanish retired footballer.

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Ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities

This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's autonomous communities, as well as for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

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Roberto Iniesta

Roberto Iniesta Ojea (born May 16, 1962), also known as Robe; is a Spanish songwriter, singer and guitarist.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Rosa Morena

Rosa Morena (born 11 July 1941) is a Spanish flamenco pop star who achieved international fame during the 1970s disco era, with the song, "Échale guindas al pavo".

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Royal Governor of Chile

The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General.

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Santiago

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.

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Sebastián Vizcaíno

Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548–1624) was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Philippines, the Baja California peninsula, the California coast and Japan.

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Senate of Spain

The Senate (Senado) is the upper house of Spain's parliament, the Cortes Generales.

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Sierra de Béjar (mountain range)

The Sierra de Béjar is a mountain range near the centre of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Sierra de Gata

Sierra de Gata (Sierra e Gata) is one of the main mountain ranges in the Sistema Central, Spain.

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Sierra de Montánchez

Sierra de Montánchez is a mountain range in the greater Montes de Toledo range, Spain.

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Sierra de San Pedro

Sierra de San Pedro is a mountain range in the greater Montes de Toledo range, Spain.

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Sierra de Villuercas

Sierra de Villuercas or Sierra de las Villuercas, also known as Sierra de Guadalupe after nearby Guadalupe town, is a mountain range in the greater Montes de Toledo range, Spain.

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Sierra Morena

The Sierra Morena is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain.

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Sistema Central

The Central System, Spanish and Sistema Central, is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Soraya Arnelas

Soraya Arnelas Rubiales (born 13 September 1982), better known by her stage name Soraya, is a Spanish singer.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources.

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Tagus

The Tagus (Tajo,; Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Taifa of Badajoz

The Taifa of Badajoz (from طائفة بطليوس) was a medieval Islamic Moorish kingdom located in what is now parts of Portugal and Spain.

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Telephone numbers in Spain

The Spanish telephone numbering plan is the allocation of telephone numbers in Spain.

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The Californias

The Californias (Spanish: Las Californias), occasionally known as the Three Californias or Two Californias, are a region of North America, shared between Mexico and the United States of America, consisting of the U.S. state of California and the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.

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Tiétar (river)

Tiétar is a river of Spain.

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Turkmens

The Turkmens (Türkmenler, Түркменлер, IPA) are a nation and Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, primarily the Turkmen nation state of Turkmenistan.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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Valdivia

Valdivia is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia.

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.

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Villanueva de la Serena

Villanueva de la Serena is a city in the Province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.

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Zújar River

The Zújar is a 214 km long river in Spain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremadura

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