Estremadura Province (1936–76)

Extremadura ( ( ɨ ) ʃtɾɨmɐ'duɾɐ ) is the name of a historical province of Portugal, which roughly encompasses the entire coastal strip of land in the central Portugal including Lisbon. It overlaps with the present Região de Lisboa and the districts of Leiria and Setúbal.

Traditionally, the name of the Latin name extrema Durii to dt derived ' across the river Douro ' and it would mean the preferred over the Douro out area that from the beginning of the 12th century mainly by the first Portuguese King Afonso I. Henriques was liberated. Linguistically, however plausible is the interpretation that the name is derived as a noun formation from the Latin adjective extremus, - a, and then as much as ' fringe ' or more accurately ' border area ( with the Moors ) ' means. He corresponds to the Spanish side of the Extremadura.

The boundaries of the Portuguese Estremadura walked initially during the reconquest of Moorish territory and eventually encompassed the entire Portuguese territory south of the Douro to Setúbal, south of Lisbon. In the 15th century belonged to her today's districts of Aveiro, Coimbra, Leiria, Lisbon, Santarém and Setúbal. In the 19th century the Extremadura was limited with minor variations on the districts of Lisbon, Leiria, Setúbal and parts of Santarém, which together formed the province of Estremadura, due to the administrative reform of 1936. With the entry into force of the new Constitution of 1976, the provinces were abolished as political institutions. When the provinces and their names have disappeared from the political and administrative presence, they live in everyday speech of the Portuguese continued to this day, in the case of Extremadura, however to a lesser degree than for example in the case of Minho ( province ) or the Ribatejo. Gradually enter the names that have been introduced in the context of EU regional classification (NUTS ), and who is no longer builds on the historical provinces in their place.