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Historia

Portugal is Europe`s south-western extremity, washed by the Atlantic, and warmed by the Mediterranean sun. Alone among iberia´s ancient kingdoms, in its independence from spain, it is a nation about half the size of Florida, with two-thirds the population. Yet, over centuries, it has influenced the lives of the rest of us far more than many much larger and more powerful countries