Changing borders in Iberia

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Changing borders in Iberia

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1drbubbles
Août 6, 2008, 9:07 am

A few months ago I went to a museum exhibition of maps and atlases. One was a dining-room-table–sized book (hardbound), from no later than 1800 (my notes are not accessible at the moment), that was opened to the Iberian peninsua.

The present borders of Spain and Portugal are such that a little shelf of Spain sits atop Portugal's northern border, and P's southern border is the sea. But on that map, the whole country of P was shifted north such that its northern border was the Bay of Biscay coast, and the whole country of P sat upon a little bench of S that jutted out beneath P'southern border with S. The S/P border began somewhere around Lisbon.