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The true about Portugal is that they are a shadow of Spain.
Their identity is based around Lusitanian, an extixt tribe that had their capital in southwest Castile, in what is today Merida. As well Suevi, but they never did hold Galicia. Their own local version of broken Latin comes from Galicia, but they never did hold Galicia. Unlike Spain, a nation dating back to Visigoths who conquered the whole peninsula and unified it into a centralized nation with capital in Toledo and royal institutions (Aula Regia, Council, etc.) in Toledo as well. Saint Isidore os Seville in the III Council of Toledo after Recaredus conversion to Catholicism, was the first to mention Spain as a political and social subject.
Portugal in itself was born from a rebel county of the Kingdom of Leon, just as Castile. They never got any identity besides this. Leon and Castile unified and reconquered the capital city of Spain, Toledo, the city of the Goths, the city of the kings, the city of the 3 cultures, and there the kings got crowned Imperators Totius Hispaniae.
Even the Aragonese recognized the authority of the title.
Then the Castilianleonese kingdom unified with Aragon, and reconquered Granada from the Moors and Navarra from the French during the times of Catholic Kings. And Philip II reconquered Portugal some decades later.
The true about Portugal is that they are a shadow of Spain.
Their identity is based around Lusitanian, an extixt tribe that had their capital in southwest Castile, in what is today Merida. As well Suevi, but they never did hold Galicia. Their own local version of broken Latin comes from Galicia, but they never did hold Galicia. Unlike Spain, a nation dating back to Visigoths who conquered the whole peninsula and unified it into a centralized nation with capital in Toledo and royal institutions (Aula Regia, Council, etc.) in Toledo as well. Saint Isidore os Seville in the III Council of Toledo after Recaredus conversion to Catholicism, was the first to mention Spain as a political and social subject.
Portugal in itself was born from a rebel county of the Kingdom of Leon, just as Castile. They never got any identity besides this. Leon and Castile unified and reconquered the capital city of Spain, Toledo, the city of the Goths, the city of the kings, the city of the 3 cultures, and there the kings got crowned Imperators Totius Hispaniae.
Even the Aragonese recognized the authority of the title.
Then the Castilianleonese kingdom unified with Aragon, and reconquered Granada from the Moors and Navarra from the French during the times of Catholic Kings. And Philip II reconquered Portugal some decades later.
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