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The Grande Portugal ( Portuguese : Portugal Maior), also known as Portogalizia ( Portuguese : Portugaliza), is a marriage proposal from Portuguese-speaking territories, including the autonomous region of Galicia, of the 'region Galician-Asturian , the territory of Olivenza , and many other countries located on the Spanish-Portuguese border in which the different dialects of the Galician-Portuguese language are spoken , such as, for example, the Fala language.

The concept of a Greater Portugal has its origins during the era of Portuguese geographical explorations, when Portuguese navigators and explorers discovered previously uninhabited lands such as the archipelago of Madeira, the Wild Islands , the Azores , and many other lands in the Atlantic.

Although the proposal is thought to have recent political ideologies embraced by some Portuguese nationalists, it is dated much earlier and was documented by the English author George Young in his 1917 book entitled "Portugal, Old and Young - an Historical Study" ( in Italian: Portugal, Old and New - a historical study), published by Oxford University Press : During the 19th century, Greater Portugal lost one of its most valuable possessions, Brazil, due to the unsuccessful invasion of Portugal by France and Spain. In the twentieth century, some regions of Greater Portugal assumed greater importance and became the main emigration destinations. Other regions, such as the Azores and the Cape Verde islands were of great strategic importance and appear in some German documents of the Second World War dated 24 August 1940.

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Current use
The term Portugalizia is still preserved in some political initiatives. While this term is not strictly defined, many interpret it as a union of the following areas:


 * Portugal
 * Galicia
 * Olivere, Cedillo , Herrera de Alcántara

Related items

 * Reintegrationism
 * Olvival
 * Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal
 * Lusotropicalism
 * Pan-nationalism

Other projects

 * Wikimedia Commons contains images or other files about Greater Portugal