The map above entitled "Portugal Is Not a Small Country," was created for internal Portugese reasons, after the loss of Brazil, to show that the remaining hegemony was still substantial.
Found at Strange Maps. Posted for the Oregon Expat.
31 January 2010
Empires come and empires go
The map above entitled "Portugal Is Not a Small Country," was created for internal Portugese reasons, after the loss of Brazil, to show that the remaining hegemony was still substantial.
Found at Strange Maps. Posted for the Oregon Expat.
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The Oregon Expat loves the map! I didn't realize that Angola (or Mozambique, for that matter) were quite so large. Very interesting comparison.
ReplyDeleteYou may have already picked up on this fact as well, but Portugal was the last European nation to leave Africa. It cut ties with its African colonies immediately after the 1974 Carnation Revolution (one of the few bloodless revolutions in all of European history).