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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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character and See also:physical type, the See also:people of this, region are less easily classified than those of other See also:Spanish provinces. They lack the endurance and See also:energy of the Galicians, the See also:independent and enterprising spirit of the Asturians, See also:Basques and Catalans, the culture of the Castilians and Andalusians. Their failure to develop a distinctive See also:local type of character and See also:civilization is perhaps due to the adverse economic See also:history of their See also:country. The two See also:great waterways which See also:form the natural outlet for Estremaduran See also:commerce flow to the See also:Atlantic through a See also:foreign and, for centuries, a hostile territory. Like other parts of See also:Spain, See also:Estremadura suffered severely from the See also:expulsion of the See also:Jews and See also:Moors (1492–161 o) ,while the compensating treasure, derived during the same See also:period from Spanish See also:America, never reached a See also:province so remote at once from the See also:sea and from the See also:chief centres of See also:national See also:life. Although See also:Cortes (1485–1547), the conqueror of See also:Mexico and See also:Pizarro (c. 1471–1541), the conqueror of See also:Peru, were both See also:born in Estremadura, their exploits, far from bringing prosperity to their native province, only encouraged the See also:emigration of its best inhabitants. Heavy See also:taxation and harsh See also:land-See also:laws prevented any recovery, while the See also:felling of the forests reduced many fertile areas to See also:waste land, and rendered worse a See also:climate already unfavourable to See also:agriculture. Few countries leave upon the mind of the traveller a deeper impression , of hopeless poverty.

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