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unusual facts about Extremadura


Flechas Azules Mixed Brigade

One, the Flechas Azules Mixed Brigade "Blue Arrows" first served in Extremadura from April 1937 to the end of the War in the North.


Arroyomolinos

Arroyomolinos, Cáceres, a municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

Arroyomolinos de la Vera, a municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto

Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto is a professional basketball team based in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

Cantonalism

It can also be noted, the attempt to establish cantons took place in Extremadura, Coria, Herve and Plasencia.

CB Plasencia

Club Baloncesto Plasencia Ambroz, more commonly referred to today by its sponsorship name of Plasencia Extremadura, is a professional Basketball team based in Plasencia, Extremadura.

Coronus

Coronus, a deity of the Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia and Extremadura (Spain) and Portugal)

Enrique Díez Canedo

His maternal relatives came from an Extremaduran village called Alburquerque, but during his early years the family moved successively to Badajoz, Valencia, Vigo, Port Bou and Barcelona; in this last city his parents died in a short period of time.

Extremaduran cuisine

The chanfaina in Extremadura has nothing to do with similarly named dishes in the Iberian Peninsula, like the Catalan Xanfaina, which is a Spanish version of the Occitan Ratatouille.

Foundation of Trujillo, Peru

November 1534 by the Spanish conquistador, Diego de Almagro, who founded the first Spanish settlement in Moche Valley, naming it Trujillo of New Castile after the home city of Francisco Pizarro Trujillo of Extremadura.

Guillermo Fernández

Guillermo Fernández Vara (1958-), a Spanish politician from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party who served as the President of Extremadura from 2007 to 2011.

High Court of Andalusia

From 1505 to 1834, the Royal Chancery had jurisdiction over the Kingdom of Granada, over the three kingdoms that then made up Andalusia (Seville, Córdoba, and Jaén, as well as the Kingdom of Murcia, La Mancha, certain provinces of Extremadura, and the Canary Islands.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra

He has also been deputy of the Assembly for Badajoz, General Secretary of PSOE of Extremadura, Executive Secretary of the Executive Federal Commission of the PSOE and teacher in commission of services for political matters of the Department of Hispanic Philology of the University of Extremadura in the Department of Education of Badajoz.

La Musgaña

The band incorporates various instruments such as the dulcimer, fiddle, hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, flutes, guitar and bass, and performs traditional music from the Iberian peninsula, mostly from the Spanish regions of Castile, Zamora, Leon, Extremadura and La Mancha.

La Zarza

La Zarza, Badajoz, Spanish municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura

Madrid Xanadú

Madrid Xanadú is a large shopping mall and entertainment center in Arroyomolinos, Madrid, Spain at the Autovía de Extremadura section.

Marvão

The migration of the Celtici is considered part of a third or fourth wave of Celts in the 4th century BCE: this migration occurred across modern-day Aragon and into modern-day Extremadura and Alentejo, displacing the proto-Celt Lusitanians who dominated the lands north of the Tagus, and skirting the Vettones lands that stretched from Zamora to Castelo Branco.

Pinchitos

Pinchitos or Pinchos Morunos is a (believed to be) North African influenced dish typical of the Spanish autonomous communities of Andalusia and Extremadura.

Portugal–Spain relations

There is an unsettled territorial dispute regarding the municipality of Olivenza/Olivença and the smaller town and municipality of Táliga, both currently administered as a part of the province of Badajoz, in the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura.

Rebollar

Rebollar, Cáceres, a municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

Roman temple of Alcántara

The Roman temple of Alcántara is located at one side of the Alcántara Bridge, Cáceres, Extremadura (Spain).

Salorino

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

Sistema Central

The major mountain ranges are the Sierra de Guadarrama, which runs approximately along the border of the Madrid and Castile and León autonomous communities, the Sierra de Gredos north of the border between Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha stretching into Extremadura and containing the range's highest mountain, Pico Almanzor, at 2,592 m, as well as the Serra da Estrela, containing the highest point in continental Portugal, A Torre, 1.993 m.

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Some barons were Pasqual Maragall (Catalonia), who didn't run for re-election in 2006; Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra (Extremadura), who didn't run for re-election in 2007; Manuel Chaves (Andalucia), who renounced Andalucia's presidency in 2009 to assume Third Vice Presidency of the Spanish Government; José Montilla (Catalonia), now opposition leader.

The PSOE remained as the ruling party in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias.

Zafra

During the Reconquista, Zafra was captured twice by Christian forces, first in 1229 by Alfonso IX, and then definitely by Ferdinand III, in a campaign through present-day Extremadura described in Alfonso X's Crónica General de España (General History of Spain).


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