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In eighteenth-century France, before the revolution of 1789, market women used to shout ‘Portugal’ when selling oranges (Braudel, 1979, pp. 441–2). Even today ‘Portugal’ in the Greek and Kurdish languages is synonymous with oranges, an illustration of the extent to which this small country projected itself on the world.
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Magone, J.M. (1997). The Portuguese Political System: From Democratic Transition to Europeanisation. In: European Portugal. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371224_2
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