folk etymology, pasture land originally was not in the current Extremadura, if not the province of Soria, the other side of the River Douro, "Far Douro." When the current Extremadura reconquered from the Moors recovered the authenticated name to be the land of pastures, destination of transhumance. Extremadura
actually meant "the land that is in the extreme." This sense was given in romance, in the northern kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, the last portion of the south who had taken Al-Andalus.
also in the kingdom of Portugal to the region called Extremadura Lisbon south of Porto and end to that reached in the conquests of the twelfth century. Precisely. And it is the Portuguese who gives us the key, because in this language so close, continuous Extremadura meaning "border" or "limit."
In Latin, the plural of extremum (final limit, as far ...) extreme extremorum, was used to designate the border territories, in particular those strips of land that was "extra" outside the borders and building a kind of security zone as a way of no man's land. Strips were security.
