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Eyewitness Accounts from the Napoleonic Wars Spain and Portugal 1808-1814
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 # ...
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September's Latino Independence Days: A Month of Freedom
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 ...
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Spain and Portugal have naturalized more than 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews since 2015
(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 ...
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Catalan independence vote impacts Spanish markets
Following a disputed referendum that took place on October 1, Carles Puigdemont, First Minister of the regional Catalan Government, announced that the region will declare independence from Spain in ...