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Originally Posted by Cirrus
How would be the differences between the notion of Spain or Iberia and, for exemple, the notion of Britain ?
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Where Spain is one nation historically divided into state territories following an invasion, Britain is the result of the unification of different nations, by the descendents of an invading nation.
There exists a [well documented] process of ethnogenesis in Spain, that predates the existance of the modern territorial states.
The only such ethnogenesis in Britain would be an ancient between Picts and Gaels (The Dalriada), which gives identity to a nation that we know as Scotland.
Another ethnogenesis in Britain would be that of Anglos, Saxons and Jutes... and to an arguable extent some native Britons (depending on the area), and which gave identity to a nation that we know as England.
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