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Nueva Extremadura
Nueva
Extremadura
means "New Extremadura" in
Spanish
and
comes
from
Extremadura, Spain
.
Nueva
Extremadura
could
refer to
a
region
in
the north
of
New Spain
,
roughly
placed
on the border
between
present-day
Coahuila and Texas
.
the name originally given to
Chile
by
Pedro de Valdivia
. Its
capital
was then known as
Santiago de Nueva Extremadura
.