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HISTORY of our region:
Extremadura
SPAIN
• Ancient settlers in
Extremadura lived in caves
and painted on the walls
(cave art)
• They also built some
monuments made of stones
in which they buried dead
people o their ashes
(dolmen)
Ancient settlers
• Those ancient civilizations were Celts and
Iberians. Later on they joined together and
were called Celtiberian
Romans
• 2000 years ago, Romans divided Extremadura into
two provinces: Bética and Lusitania, whose capital
was Emérita Augusta (Mérida)
Muslims
• They arrived in Spain from the north of Africa in VIII century
• They stayed in Extremadura for hundreds of years and lived
peacefully with Spanish and Extremeños
• They built a great variety of monuments, for example the
Citadle in Badajoz
Extremeños around the world
• Later on the region was for a long period of time the border
between Moorish and Christian. After the reconquest it
arrived to new splendor with the discovery of America, when
it was the cradle of several famous conquerors from
Extremadura
Pizarro founded
Lima city (Peru)
Hernán Cortés
discovered Mexico Vasco Núñez de Balboa
discovered the Pacific Ocean
Other personalities from
Extremadura • Some other well-known people from this
region of Spain are:
– Politics: Bravo Murillo and Manuel Godoy
– Musicians: Cristóbal Oudrid
and Juan Vázquez
– Painters: Luis de Morales, Francisco Zurbarán, Adelardo
Covarsí
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