Mais pourquoi l'espagne et le portugal revendiquent tout deux cette ville

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00:00Why Spain and Portugal are representing both of these cities that you see here?

00:04The border between Spain and Portugal is almost identical to the defined in 1297,

00:10being the oldest geopolitical border in the world after the of Andorre.

00:15But on 18 km, the border is not defined,

00:18and this is because Olivenza was in the Portuguese sovereignty of 1297

00:22until 1801 when Spanish and Spanish troops took the city during the Orange War.

00:28In 1815, during the Viennes Treaty, the Spain promised to bring the city of Olivenza to Portugal,

00:34but it has never been done, even though Spain and Portugal are both part of the EU and the Schengen

00:41space.

00:42Even though the border is practically inexistent,

00:45it always represents a different frontiers,

00:47because Portugal does not recognize the Spanish sovereignty on the territory.

00:51It is one of the rare different frontiers in the Western Europe.

00:56Do you know others in the world?

00:59Do you want to become imbattable in Culture G?

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