quinta-feira, 4 de junho de 2009

Portuguese issues

I have less than one month here in Kalamata, here in Greece, here in the Mediterranean... The last 4 months passed fast like hell, unfortunately. Now I start to think a lot on my trip back to my country of course...

Today (can't remember why) I was reading some things in the internet about Portugal, then about Portuguese language, than about Galaico-Portuguese language and its history, then about just the history, then the diplomatic history, then the military history, and I ended reading about the Battle of Aljubarrota. I dont know why, but maybe because I am sensitive about missimg my country, I got fascinated about this battle. It was even better than I ever thought, together with all the history surrounding it. I got more close to understand why we portuguese people do not like the spanish ones and the frenchs! ehehe Poor guys... Over all these centuries we won lots of battles against the inhabitants of nowadays Spain, everytime they were more than us and better equiped and they were falling like flies... Many times they were being helped by the frenchs, poor guys were losing all the times their cavalry... We fought in disadvantage and we ended winning without casualties, we fougth from 1:4 and the casualties were 1:4, we captured lots of prisioners and material and our prisioners escaped...

Battle of the Atoleiros
Soldiers
1600:5000

Casualties
0:PLENTY

Battle of Trancoso
Soldiers
1300:N/A (around the same, but much better equiped)

Casualties
Few pawns:~90%

Battle of Aljubarrota
Soldiers
6500:31000

Casualties
1000:4000

Battle of the Lines of Elvas
Soldiers
11000+11000:14500

Casualties
800:6500

Battle of Ameixial
Soldiers
24000:21500+5000 amunition cars+20 artillery

Casualties
1350:12500

Battle of Montes Claros
Soldiers
20500:22000

Casualties
700:10000

One typical thing in most portuguese people is the admiration and reliance in our history. We were great, and now we are not, so why not keep remembering that? I will always be like this, I dont care. Portugal is the country in Europe which has the oldest national identity. Portugal is the european state with the most old and stable established frontiers.Thereby, I am Portuguese since the XIII century and you have your nationality for much less time than I do.
Greece became a kingdom 177 years ago, and the actual greek territory has 62 years when Italy gave them the Dodecanese islands.


And I forgive you castillians! In the end you were losing all the time.... eheheheh

Ahhhh! You come from there!