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Portuguese are not Spaniards, in fact Portuguese are the quitessential opposite of Spaniards.....
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What do you mean by Spain? Modern unified Spain as we know it today? That didn't exist at the time. Only because Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragon married in 1479 does not make Spain an unified country, but an unstable federation of kingdoms that sometimes agreed in acting together, and more often, joined forces with France or England to fight the "King of Spain".
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Too bad that Portuguese don't even want to do with the Spanish (much less than the Spaniards want).
28% Portuguese would want to join Spain vs 46% Spaniards who want Portugal to join Spain.......Large companies have opened shops in the neighboring country, and the Portuguese state closed the birth center of Elvas, sending patients to the Extremadura health system. Some groups defend Iberism, including some Spanish and Portuguese officers. One 2006 survey showed only 28% of the Portuguese think that Portugal and Spain should be one country. 42% of these would put the capital in Madrid and a 41% in Lisbon. 96.5% thought that the economy of Portugal would fare better in a union with Spain, and more than a half would accept Juan Carlos I of Spain (who was exiled near Lisbon) as head of state (note that the survey was taken at a moment of crisis in the Portuguese economy). A similar survey in Spain, after the Portuguese one, showed that 45.7% of Spanish think that Portugal and Spain should merge; this support is especially higher among younger citizens (18 to 24 years old) and communities near the border with Portugal. But in Spain only 3.3% would prefer Lisbon as the capital, while 80% would prefer Madrid. 43.4% think the country should be known as España/Espanha (Spain) against 39.4% preferring Iberia.
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Spain was created as unified kingdom in 1492.
Did the kingdoms of Castille and Aragon identified as spanish, just like the medieval Albanian Princes and Principalities identified as Arberors or medieval Albanians despite not being part of a unified albanian kngdom?
This is a good question.
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But this word Iberian or was never used i think. Espanha, Ispania, Hispania, in the end:
Aragoneses, Castelhanos, Portugueses, todos éramos, por estranhos e próprios, comummente chamados «espanhóis» assim como ainda hoje chamamos «alemão» ao Prussiano, Saxão, Hannoveriano, Austríaco:
Aragoneses, Castilian, Portuguese, all of them were named (and they name to themselves) as "Spaniards".. as today we name "German" to Prussian, Saxonian, Hannoverian, Austria.... (ALMEIDA GARRET).
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