Portugal

Portugal officially The Portuguese Republic is a country in the southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. Bordered by Spain to the north and east.

Portugal is not that well-known in the fandom but is slowly coming to popularity mostly due to its neighbors and their former self.

Appearance
Portugal can be seen in casual business attire and casual clothes.

Personality
Portugal is a rather kind country person, but sometimes he is angry and cold. They're very angry with his father and grandfather. Depression attacks because of insults that Brazil and other countries do because of his father and grandmother is something common in his life

Interests
On the stereotypes of Portuguese people is that they like Colfsih (which they do) but some disagrees the idea. They also like wine, tea, musics, their national food, sports and many more.

Nicknames

 * Portu/Fortune
 * Lusitania
 * The land of the three F’s
 * The Iberian Peninsula
 * The Rectangle
 * Origin Of The Language
 * The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. By the 13th century, Galician-Portuguese had become a mature language with its own literature and began to split into two languages

Etymology
The word Portugal derives from the Roman-Celtic place name Portus Cale. Cale or Cailleach was the name of a Celtic deity and the name of an early settlement located at the mouth of the Douro River (present-day Vila Nova de Gaia), which flows into the Atlantic Ocean in the north of what is now Portugal.

Romanization
The Iberian peninsula got conquered by the Roman Empire in 218 BC during the Second Punic War, it was occupied by the Romans for decades which reshaped and adopted its language, writing system and cultures.

German Invasion
In 409, with the decline of the Roman Empire, the Iberian Peninsula was occupied by Germanic tribes that the Romans referred to as barbarians. In 411, with a federation contract with Emperor Honorius, many of these people settled in Hispania. An important group was made up of the Suebi and Vandals in Gallaecia, who founded a Suebi Kingdom with its capital in Braga

Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the name of the Iberian Peninsula, given by the Moors during the Middle Ages. At its greatest geographical extent, its territory occupied most of the peninsula and a part of present-day.

Reconquista
The Reconquista, was a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711, the expansion of the Christian kingdoms throughout Hispania, and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492.

Creation Of The County Of Portugal
The County of Portugal refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Braga and Porto, today corresponding to littoral northern Portugal, within which the identity of the Portuguese people formed.

Kingdom Of Portugal
At the end of the 11th century, the Burgundian knight Henry became count of Portugal and defended its independence by merging the County of Portugal and the County of Coimbra. It has captured Sri Lanka, Timor Leste,  Brazil, some parts of  Morocco,  Angola, Mozambique, Macau, Guinea-Bissau, some parts of Indonesia, India and the northern part of the  Philippines (Luzon and Visayas).

Naval Exploration Of The Portuguese Empire (15th-16th Century)
Portugal's goal was to sail all over the world to spread Christianity like the Spanish Empire following the leading European powers;   England and  France. It occupied and founded Brazil. The Empire also landed in Asia which is in Taiwan,  Japan,  China, the  Philippines, and  Indonesia.

Portuguese Restoration War
The Spanish king Philip IV attempted on making Portugal as a  Spanish province and the Portuguese lost the war. However they still maintain their allegiances with Spain

Colonies
The Portuguese colonized parts of South America (such as Brazil, Colonia de Sacramento, Uruguay, and Guanare, Venezuela.

Organizations And Affiliations

 * European Union
 * United Nations
 * G20
 * NATO

Government
The Government of Portugal is one of the four sovereignty bodies of the Portuguese Republic, together with the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic and the courts. It is both the body of sovereignty that conducts the general politics of the country and the superior body of the Portuguese public administration.

Diplomacy

 * Spain
 * Sweden
 * United Kingdom
 * Brazil
 * Russia
 * Timor Leste
 * China
 * Thailand
 * WIP

Geography
Portugal is located on the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula and plateau, that divides the inland Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. It is located on the Atlantic coast of this plateau and crossed by several rivers which have their origin in Spain.

Family
Optional WARNING: There is controversy about the type of relationship of countries that were former European colonies with the current Western countries. So the following countries are only optional:
 * Macedonian Empire — Grandparent or parent
 * Roman Empire — Grandparent or parent
 * Greece — Half-sibling or parent
 * Italy — Sibling or parent
 * France — Sibling
 * Spain— Sibling
 * Romania — Sibling
 * Armenia — Pibling or step-sibling
 * Georgia — Pibling or step-sibling
 * Sweden — Cousin
 * Denmark — Cousin
 * Finland —Cousin
 * Iceland — Cousin
 * Norway — Cousin
 * Cyprus — Half-sibling or nibling
 * Malta — Half-sibling or nibling
 * Vatican City — Half-sibling or nibling
 * Andorra — Child
 * Antarctica — Child
 * Netherlands — Child
 * United States — Child
 * Belgium — Nibling
 * Canada — Nibling/step-nibling
 * European Union — Nibling
 * Switzerland — Nibling
 * Australia — Step-nibling
 * New Zealand — Step-nibling
 * Luxembourg — Grand-nibling
 * NATO — Grand-nibling


 * Brazil — Child
 * Timor Leste — Child
 * Sri Lanka — Child
 * Angola — Child
 * Mozambique — Child
 * Guinea-Bissau — Child
 * Macau — Step-child
 * Mexico — Nibling
 * Peru — Nibling
 * Philippines — Adoptive nibling
 * Argentina — Nibling or cousin
 * Bolivia — Nibling
 * Chile — Nibling
 * Colombia — Nibling
 * Cuba — Nibling
 * Dominican Republic — Nibling
 * Ecuador — Nibling
 * El Salvador — Nibling
 * Equatorial Guinea — Nibling
 * Guatemala — Nibling
 * Honduras — Nibling
 * Nicaragua — Nibling
 * Paraguay — Nibling
 * Venezuela — Nibling
 * Palau — Nibling
 * Puerto Rico — Nibling
 * Benin — Nibling
 * Burkina Faso — Nibling
 * Cameroon — Nibling
 * Cape Verde — Nibling
 * Central African Republic — Nibling
 * Chad — Nibling
 * Comoros — Nibling
 * Gabon — Nibling
 * Guinea — Nibling
 * Guinea-Bissau — Nibling
 * Haiti — Nibling
 * Ivory Coast — Nibling
 * Madagascar — Nibling
 * Mali — Nibling
 * Mauricio — Nibling
 * Mauritania — Nibling
 * Niger — Nibling
 * Congo Republic — Nibling
 * São Tomé and Príncipe — Nibling
 * Senegal — Nibling
 * Seychelles — Nibling
 * Togo — Nibling
 * Vanuatu — Nibling
 * Malaysia — Step-nibling
 * Thailand — Step-nibling
 * Western Sahara — Step-nibling
 * Micronesia — Grand-nibling
 * Panama — Grand-nibling
 * Suriname — Grand-nibling
 * Uruguay — Grand-nibling or cousin
 * Indonesia — Step-grand-nibling

Friends

 * UK — My good old friend, we shared a long history together, we hang out so often.
 * France — My sibling, they're a good person, they also like to visit me and bring wine with them.
 * Spain — My dear sibling and also neighbor, previously, we fought so often and were colonial rivals, but then we realized that this hostility is pointless.
 * USA — My nibling, they're an economic partner and a good friend, they also let me in NATO and European Union, yet sometimes they're rude, and I don't like it when they start making jokes about Europe. But they did help me in the past.
 * Germany — One of me friends. I love to eat their burgers.
 * Italy — a good friend. We love to ride the waves on surfboards together and drink Italian wine together.
 * India — we're good trading partners, although Goa is my child as well, don't be selfish they weren't only yours
 * Brazil — They're my child in the South Americas, they have delicious cuisines and are very kind
 * Sri Lanka — They're my sweet child but they don't believe that I'm their parent; rather believe that they're their real parent

Neutral

 * Russia — "Others always tell me that you're bad, but when I got to know you better, you don't really seem like that. And thanks for the 2018 FIFA World Cup! But doesn't Crimea belong to Ukraine?"

Enemies

 * Morocco
 * Indonesia — Leave my child alone! They deserve peace and freedom and you don't have any rights to intervene with that!

Past Versions

 * County of Portugal
 * Kingdom of Portugal
 * First Portuguese Republic
 * Ditadura Nacional
 * Estado Novo (enemy)
 * National Salvation Junta

Trivia

 * Half of the "New World" once belonged to Portugal
 * The Portuguese Empire was actually the first global empire in history. It was also one of the longest-lived colonial powers, lasting for almost six centuries from when * Ceuta was captured in 1415 until Macau (now China) was handed over in 1999.
 * Portuguese is the official language of nine other countries, Portugal has had the same defined borders since 1139, making it the oldest nation-state in Europe. Afonso Henriques was proclaimed the first King of Portugal in 1139, and the country remained a kingdom for almost 800 years thereafter until a successful 1910 revolution by the Portuguese Republican Party.
 * Portugal is the largest Cork producer in the world
 * One of the oldest universities in Europe is Portugal
 * Portugal and England have the longest diplomatic alliance in the world
 * Portugal is one of the World's Top Surf Sports
 * Lisbon was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in European history
 * Portuguese Fado music is an intangible cultural heritage
 * Portugal was the first colonial power to abolish slavery

Gallery
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