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  1. City in Extremadura, Spain, on the
  2. Portuguese frontier; population (1986)
  3. 126,000. It has a 13th-century cathedral and
  4. ruins of a Moorish castle. Badajoz has often
  5. been besieged and was stormed by the Duke of
  6. Wellington 1812 with the loss of 59,000
  7. British troops.
  8.