Badajoz in a sentence

Badajoz is home to the CD Badajoz and AD Cerro de Reyes football clubs and the AB Pacense basketball club.

The Intermediate Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of Badajoz was founded in Badajoz 1968, renamed the College of Agricultural Engineering in 1972.

Luis Pinheiro, a 53-year old construction supervisor who commutes across the border every day from the Spanish city of Badajoz to his native Portugal, welcomed the move.

Ramon Azeez and his Granada teammates have been drawn against the only third tier club remaining in the Copa del Rey, Badajoz.

Tenerife, victors against Valladolid in the last round, are at home to Athletic Club, while Badajoz are rewarded with a tie against Granada after their win over Eibar this week.

The new stores will be operated by Lider Aliment, A Badajoz based supermarket operator, and will feature state of the art technology, with energy-efficient cooling systems and LED technology on the shop floors.

Badajocenses Christians from the earliest centuries towards the end of 19th century buried their dead in or near churches. citation Badajoz's oldest two cemeteries are Cementerio de San Juan and Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad.

Casa Puebla, built in 1921, is one of the other designs of Pinna, who designed numerous buildings around Badajoz.

Cristóbal Oudrid (1825–1877), one of the founding fathers of Spanish musical nationalism, was born in Badajoz, son of the resident military bandmaster.

He then moved south quickly, besieged the fortress of Badajoz for a month and captured it during one bloody night.

In 1169 the now old Dom Afonso was disabled in an engagement near Badajoz by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner by the soldiers of the king of León Ferdinand II also his son-in-law.

In geological terms, Badajoz is located in the South Submeseta.sfn It was founded on the banks of the Guadiana River on a Paleozoic limestone hill, carved by the river.

Like much of southern Spain, flamenco is very popular, and performances are regularly put on in Badajoz on the Plaza Alta and other venues.

Spain claims the de jure sovereignty over Olivenza/Olivença on the grounds that the Treaty of Badajoz still stands and has never been revoked.

Spain interprets Article 105 as not being mandatory on demanding Spain to return Olivenza/Olivença to Portugal, thus not revoking the Treaty of Badajoz.

The only time that he ever showed grief in public was after the storming of Badajoz; he cried at the sight of the British dead in the breaches.