Aliseda is a municipality in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

of Cáceres and

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Extremadura Extremadura (; ext, Estremaúra; pt, Estremadura; Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is an autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, it ...

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. The municipality covers an area of and as of 2011 had a population of 2013 people. In 1920 a treasure of great historical significance was found in Aliseda. The discovery of the

Treasure of Aliseda Treasure (from la, thesaurus from Greek language ''thēsauros'', "treasure store") is a concentration of wealth — often originating from ancient history — that is considered lost and/or forgotten until rediscovered. Some jurisdictions leg ...

in 1920 revealed that the origin of the town belonged to a period before Christ, as it found traces from the Late Bronze Age at the top of the

Sierra del Aljibe Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following: Places Mountains and mountain ranges * Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range i ...

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Municipalities in the Province of Cáceres {{Extremadura-geo-stub