[Lusitan]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

By the way, I'll give you more than a Myth of Spain, long before Portugal even existed.

It was called, in Latin, Recuperatio Hispaniae. Or the Reconquest of The Spains. It appears first in the early years of the Reconquista, and the new kingdoms emerge through this idea.

In other words, if the "Myth" of the Reconquest of the nation had not been there, there would have never been a Kingdom of Leon and, in consequence, there would have never been a Country of Portucalis and later a Kingdom of Portugal.

Those States (kingdoms) were created because of the ideal to recover the Nation (Spain).

A Myth (although in this case is not strong) is not eneugh. Islam has a very strong myth but an ethno-nationalist does not consider it a nation in the same sense, not will he support the existence of such myth.