Casas de Don Pedro, meaning 'Lord Peter's houses', is a municipality located in the

province of Badajoz The province of Badajoz () is a province of western Spain located in the autonomous community of Extremadura. It was formed in 1833. It is bordered by the provinces of Cáceres in the north, Toledo, Ciudad Real in the east, Córdoba in the s ...

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 ...

, Spain. According to the 2014

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

, the municipality has a population of 1559 inhabitants.

History

At the time of the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...

the

Francoist Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...

concentration camp of ''Casa Zaldívar'', where

Spanish Republican The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII, and was dissolved on 1 A ...

military personnel were interned and where many were shot,''Campo de Concentración de Casa Zaldívar: fusilamientos del 15 de mayo de 1939''
/ref> was located in a '' cortijo'' of this municipality.Fernando Barrero Arzac, ''Historia y tragedia de la 109ª BM en el campo de Zaldívar (Badajoz)''
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SBHAC - Biografía: Andrés Barrero Rodríguez
Municipalities in the Province of Badajoz {{Badajoz-geo-stub

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