Fronteira Portugal-Espanha e individualidade territorial

PORTUGAL-SPAIN BORDER AREA AND ITS CREATIVE TENSION - The text evokes several nuances of the concept of the Portugal-Spain border: its shades of solidarity, complicity, opposition, agitation, confrontation and abandonment. At times, the border has been the zone of tension and separation, whereas at...

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Main Author: Carminda Cavaco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEG 1997-06-01
Series:Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia
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Online Access:http://www.ceg.ul.pt/finisterra/numeros/1997-63/63_17.pdf
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Summary:PORTUGAL-SPAIN BORDER AREA AND ITS CREATIVE TENSION - The text evokes several nuances of the concept of the Portugal-Spain border: its shades of solidarity, complicity, opposition, agitation, confrontation and abandonment. At times, the border has been the zone of tension and separation, whereas at other periods in history, the border has been very permeable and there has been free exchange and mutual cooperation. The borders will be subjected to yet another interpretation as a new area emerges with the active participation of both Iberian countries in the European Union and the cooperative efforts initiated in the programs of INTERREG I and II
ISSN:0430-5027