Why Portugal is not Part of Spain
In this video, we discuss why Portugal is not part of Spain. I was wondering why Portugal is a separate country from Spain, while Catalonia is not. Cultural distinctiveness and language differences are often not enough to ensure that any people group gets their own country, so I assumed that there must be some events or a series of events which led to Portugal being an independent sovereign unit. I focused on events that I thought to be culturally and historically significant to this end, and the video ended up being somewhat like an overview of Portugues history (though it is by no means exhaustive or comprehensive). There is not just one event or circumstance which caused Portugal to be independent. Like so many things, it is the end result of a chain of events.
Sources:
“A Dictionary of the Roman Empire,” by Matthew Bunson
https://www.britannica.com/place/Portugal
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Iberian
https://ancient-civilization.com/levant/carthage-history-of-the-phoenicians-in-north-africa.html
https://www.worldhistory.org/Phoenician_Colonization/
https://www.britannica.com/place/Spain/Phoenicians
https://kids.kiddle.co/Decimus_Junius_Brutus_Callaicus
https://www.worldhistory.org/Viriathus/
https://www.tota.world/article/1166/
https://www.liquisearch.com/history_of_portugal/etymology
https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianSuevi.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pelayo-king-of-Asturias
https://www.britannica.com/place/Portugal/History#ref233815
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almoravids
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Afonso-I-king-of-Portugal
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