Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region and former province of western Portugal surrounding Lisbon.
- A historical region of west-central Spain bordering on Portugal. Reconquered from the Moors in the 1100s and 1200s, it was frequently a battlefield in the Spanish territorial wars with Portugal and in the Peninsular War fought between France and Great Britain (1808–1814).
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- proper noun An
autonomous community of westernSpain
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Hernán Cortés was born in 1485 at Medellín, in the southwestern Spanish province of Estremadura.
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Hernán Cortés was born in 1485 at Medellín, in the southwestern Spanish province of Estremadura.
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Hernán Cortés was born in 1485 at Medellín, in the southwestern Spanish province of Estremadura.
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The conquistadors mostly came from Estremadura, & it occurred to me as I passed through that they must have felt right at home in northern Mexico & southwest US.
Archive 2009-11-22 Bas Bleu 2009
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I was traveling in Navarra, Basque territory although thankfully going down slope & then Estremadura.
Archive 2009-11-22 Bas Bleu 2009
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I was traveling in Navarra, Basque territory although thankfully going down slope & then Estremadura.
Pilgrims' pass Bas Bleu 2009
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The conquistadors mostly came from Estremadura, & it occurred to me as I passed through that they must have felt right at home in northern Mexico & southwest US.
Pilgrims' pass Bas Bleu 2009
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Although abroad Linux is widely used in state institutions and at schools in the Spanish province of Estremadura it is installed on all school computers, such a large-scale migration to the open source software has not been carried out before.
Russian Schools Say "Да!" to Open Source glyn moody 2008
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Castiles, in Estremadura, in Andalusia, still without bread enough to feed herself, and obliges her to import alien wheat.
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Estremadura, Galicia, and Portugal, and produced a goodly line of men distinguished in the service of Church and State.
Don Quixote 2002
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