With a very small population, Portugal had for centuries struggled to define itself in Europe against its larger neighbour Spain. It had only acquired independence in the mid 13th century.

For the Spanish, it was their ‘War of Independence’ – for their British allies, ‘the Peninsular War’. These are the voices of witnesses to those momentous days. #EpicHistoryTV #History # ...

(JTA) — At least 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews have become citizens of Portugal or Spain since 2015, when those countries passed laws offering a naturalization process for such applicants ...

When King João VI returned to Portugal in 1821 ... on Flickr While the exact reasons for Chile's desire for independence from Spain were multi-faceted, they were intensified by Napoleon's ...