1 Portugal

The History of Portugal is the own one of an European nation whose origins go back to the Low Average Age, extending their territories during the Era of the Discoveries until creating a vast empire and becoming a world-wide power between centuries XV and XVI. Portugal entered decay losing great part of its wealth and estatus, which began by the loss of its troops and naval in the disaster of Green barley. It returned to be ruined in 1755 with the almost total destruction of his capital by an earthquake, at the beginning of century XIX with the Napoleonic Wars and in 1822 with the independence of his greater colony, Brazil. A revolution in 1910 demoted the monarchy, but the Republic was incapable to resolve the problems of an immersed country in the social confliction, the corruption and the confrontations with the Church. In 1926 a coup d'etat took step to a dictatorship that stayed in the power until 1974, when a revolution of the left military imposed the democracy. The following year, Portugal declared the independence of all possessions in Africa. He is founding partner of NATO, OECD and the EFTA. In 1986 it joined the EEC (present European Union).

Portugal is a coastal nation in the southwest of Europe and is part of the Iberian Peninsula. Its continental zone is placed in this one and has borders with a unique state (Spain), to the east and north, throughout 1,214 km In spite of the size of this border, Portugal does not recognize the border section included between the mouth of the rivers Caía and Cuncos from the annexation of the territory of Olivenza on the part of the Kingdom of Spain, in 1801. This zone is demanded by Portugal, but officially it is integral part of the Spanish province of Badajoz. The country borders to the south and the west with the North Atlantic Ocean during 1,793 km of coast. Portugal also has dominions in the Atlantic islands of Azores and Madeira, that are strategic positions throughout the sea of the west that comes near to the Straits of Gibraltar, between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Altogether, the country has an area of 92,391 km ², of which 91,951 km ² are of the continental zone and 440 km ² are of marine zone. The coast of Portugal and the Goshawks are threatened annually by severe earthquakes, although also it is common that fires and severe climate happen.

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