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- A city of southwest Spain on the Guadiana River near the border of Portugal. An ancient fortress city, it rose to prominence under the Moors as the seat (1022–1094) of an independent emirate.
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- proper noun A
province of Spain, in the autonomous region ofExtremadura . - proper noun The capital city of this province.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are a thousand years of not leaving Badajoz opposing us.
Badajoz vs. Marianas Trench Marc Horne 2011
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Smith was in many respects an absurd figure, but he created a great romantic legend by falling in love with a 14-year-old Spanish girl named Juana, whose duenna threw herself and her young charge on the Rifle Brigade's mercy amid the ruins of sacked Badajoz in 1812.
Five Best War Memoirs Max Hastings 2011
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The most startling came in El Mundo, which revealed the case of Almudena González, who was deemed to have died aged just four days old in a hospital in Badajoz, eastern Spain, in 1990.
New Europe: fresh information uncovered in stolen baby scandal 2011
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On the Spanish side of the border, at Badajoz, work is also ongoing and should be completed by 2013—that is, assuming that Spain's own budget problems are contained.
Portugal Vote May Derail Train Project David Román 2011
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On the Spanish mainland, airports at Seville and Jerez in the south and Badajoz in the east were closed.
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Ratón It is a nearly religious ritual with ancient undertones of man-versus-beast rivalry, says Juan Medina, a bullfighting blogger and professor of economic theory at the University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain.
Spain's Most Famous Bull Since Ferdinand Is Hardly a Shrinking Violet Ilan Brat 2011
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Francisca Monge said the baby girl had been born healthy and was sleeping peacefully at her side in Badajoz's Materno Infantil hospital when a doctor on a night shift came in and whisked her off for tests.
New Europe: fresh information uncovered in stolen baby scandal 2011
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Father Florentino Escribando Ruiz, from Badajoz, western Spain, suggested that crosses should be replaced with photographs showing suffering children from around the world.
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I had the same sort of trouble with my brother, the prince of Malaga, who began to reiterate what he had said about that district during the Badajoz campaign.
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I met the Amir of the Muslims at Jerez de los Caballeros on his way to Badajoz.
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