Abstract

LOIS-GONZALEZ, Rubén. Galicia in the Lusophone space: An approach from the Geography. GOT [online]. 2016, n.10, pp.9-33. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2016.10.001.

In this work points the cultural and linguistic similarity between Galician and Portuguese, as well as the proximity to which gives the streak of Minho, lets reinterpret close the geopolitics of Galicia, Portugal and lusophony. Galicia is Spain closer to Portugal in many senses. It constitutes also a continuity of urban Atlantic axis that since Setubal until A Coruña-Ferrol defines the largest urban and economic concentration of the Iberian Peninsula. Galicia and Portugal formed a Kingdom and a common language at the beginning of the middle age. Today their economic affairs, Foreign Direct Investments and measures in foreign trade, have multiplied since the soul integration in the European Community. The birth and consolidation of a Euroregion between the Autonomous Community of Galicia and the Northern Region of Portugal, but say the interest an inter-territorial cooperation added. Geography should understand and explain this important process that introduces a reality the different scales in the globalized world of the 21ST century starts.

Keywords : Lusophony; territorial integration; geopolitics; linguistic affinity; Galicia; Portugal.

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