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Badajoz is a Spanish city, capital of the homonymous province, located in the autonomous community of Extremadura. It is the most populated city of the community as well as the economic center of it. In addition, it is the seat of the Delegation of the Government of Spain in the autonomous community of Extremadura, as well as of the Sub-delegation of the Government in the province and headquarters of the Delegation of Defense in Extremadura. In 2017 it had 150 543 inhabitants, which represents 22.14% of the total population of its province and 13.94% of the Extremaduran community.

This figure places it as the most populated municipality of Extremadura and the Guadiana hydrographic basin, which crosses the city from east to west and then turns south where it borders with Portugal. It is an important natural and ornithological enclave since it is the only urban SPA in the country.Out of its total population, 127,621 inhabitants - 84.77% - reside in the urban nucleus. The rest is located in different districts and dependent nuclei. Its municipal area, which borders on the west with Portugal, is the largest extension of the province despite its territory is very small compared to the historical demarcation of the past that included locations such as: Valdelacalzada, Pueblonuevo del Guadiana, Guadiana del Caudillo, Talavera la Real, La Albuera, Valverde de Leganés, Almendral, Villar del Rey, Puebla de Obando, La Roca de la Sierra, Campo Maior, or even farther afield such as Feria or Zafra, among many others.

In spite of this, it has 144 037 hectares, or what is the same, 1440.37 km² of surface, which represents 6.62% of the province, continues being, after Cáceres and Lorca, the third most extensive municipal term from Spain. It is formed by ten population centers, among which stand out, besides the urban center of Pacense, Gévora, Villafranco del Guadiana and Valdebótoa, all of them above 1000 inhabitants. In Bótoa is the Military Base "General Menacho", and about 30 km from there by road, the Talavera la Real Air Base, next to Badajoz Airport. It is the seat of the Diputación Provincial de Badajoz, seat of the Provincial Court of Badajoz, of the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Badajoz, head of its judicial district and capital of its district. Being, also, one of the two main seats of the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz and serving as the metropolitan seat of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mérida-Badajoz, and headquarters of its corresponding episcopal vicarage.

Its geostrategic and border importance conditioned its history as fortified and walled, being the axis of diplomatic relations between Spain and Portugal, celebrating royal treaties or weddings in the city.In 1580, Philip II moved the Court in full to Badajoz, while the Lusitanian occupation campaign was being carried out, currently, its good cross-border relations with the Portuguese and neighboring Elvas have led to an agreement, since 2013, as Eurocity, to promote joint growth. Founded by Ibn Marwan in the year 875, on a settlement occupied since the most remote times of prehistory, settled on a Visigothic population then disappeared, or at least in a high degree of decadence, taking advantage of the top of one of the two hills : Cerro de la Muela, from which the current city developed, becoming an important capital of an extensive independent kingdom in the Taifa era, where one of the largest libraries in the Arab world was located, being an important cultural center of The time.

After the Reconquest, Alfonso IX granted him privileges and privileges of an extensive territory, for being the head of the old kingdom, in addition to his emblem or royal banner with the Arms of Badajoz and qualifying himself as king.From the legal point of view he was royal and stately, besides being the episcopal seat of the Bishopric of Badajoz constituted from 1255. Its politico-military relevance and border position make it, since the beginning of the XVII century, in the seat of the General Captaincy of the Royal Army of Extremadura, capital of the Province of Extremadura and, after the division into provinces, capital of the "Baja Extremadura" as Province of Badajoz, continuing, also, as regional capital. Being the institutional precedent of the Extremadura region, constituted as an autonomous community in 1983, since then assigning a new capital in Merida, although Badajoz would continue to retain its relevance, being the seat of the Delegation of the Government of Spain in the region. In addition, during the 19th century it was one of the headquarters of the Royal Audience of Extremadura.

On the right bank of the Guadiana River, there are the Cuesta de Orinaza or Cerro de San Cristóbal, also formerly known as Baxernal or Baxarnal. Today, the people of Palencia remember the foundation of their city at the party called Almossasa Batalyaws.

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