PortuGAL = 'the new port of CALais = Payed the GALe = CALais = Gaule = GALiza comment

If you do your History research properly, in a good library, you will see that Portugal's first dynasty were monarchs from Flanders and Burgundy. Portugal second and third kings embarked on a 200 year programof colonizasion of their newly conquered lands, by brining from Flanders and Burgundy hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people to ocupay those newly conquered lands. They were

In fact theey werethe first immigrants in Europe. Present Portuguese, like all europeans,are the result o f the invasions they indured, not least viking too and visigoths, romans etc but those Fanders influenced the way the Portuguese look today.

Look at the History that explains a people.
PortuGAL = 'the new port of CALais = Payed the GALe = CALais = Gaule = GALiza
There is yoiur connection of Portugal with the north of Europe, something that the spanish don't have so the portuguese are lighter generaly.

The spanish have a big complex about their skin colour and believe they can lean on the portuguese.
Cool off. There is nothing wrong in your being dark skinned.
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Hey, Raul, down below. Spain has the largest mosque in Europe.
Spain is hybrid people, a mnixture of mors and Europeans.
The Portuguese were influenced by the way their country started... total separation from Spain.
The best proof that Portuguese and spanish are different is that thtey are teo separate nations today. Portugal and Spain engaged in countless battles and spain lost al of them.



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