(shouldn't this thread be in the Ibero-Romance sub-forum?
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Quite a few corrections. First of all, Occitania is not Spain. Never mind how close it is ethnically to the Spains it is not part of the process of the ethnogenesis of Hispania. Also, you cannot present Occitania as a whole because there are much differentiated territories: Gasconha, Lengadoc, Provença, ..
The map stretches Castilla too much. In the north, Cantabria has an identity which is clearly and strongly differentiated from Castilla. In the NW, they have taken territories which belonged to Leon.. and even some which today belong to Castilla under the modern administrative model, were Leonese. In the SW, Extremadura is the land of conquest of Leon, not of Castilla. La Mancha, while lands of conquest of Castilla, it has again an ethnically differentiated identity.
Funny that some would [rightly so] reject the map of the "Catalan Countries" but would accept one of the "Castillian Countries".
The western part of the Province of Valencia is not Valencia. In fact it is La Mancha and it was added to Valencia under a jacobine administration.
As for the partition of Andalusia, the difference there is east to west and not in
"reinos de taifas".
Again, Murcia shows in a same territory with Albacete (which is La Mancha). Murcia and Almeria (which is added to a greater Granada in the map) are sub-ethnically closer even if they were historically semi-independent territories.
And under such scheme (or under a more correct scheme), Portugal should also show its sub-divisions.
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Las Españas Map
Linear Mode
