Subject: Re: Olivenca/Olivenza<br/>
Date: Jul 10, 2002 @ 18:58<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1375407784">I&#39;ve come by this Olivenza thing a couple of times now, and it is an <br/>
interesting case. Still, it doesn&#39;t seem to play a big role in <br/>
international politics, although these &quot;Friends&quot; of this city (a <br/>
Portuguese pression group called Grupo dos Amigos de Olivença - I <br/>
think you&#39;re a member of them, aren&#39;t you?) would very much like it <br/>
to become one. It looks a bit like these British towns or islands <br/>
that find themselves at war with the Netherlands after three or four <br/>
centuries, because everyone forgot that there was one. Now this <br/>
comparison isn&#39;t fair to the extent that Portugal never conceded <br/>
Olivenza being part of Spain, but on the other hand they haven&#39;t done <br/>
a lot to defend their claim either, in spite of their claim looking <br/>
very legitimate. And the citizens of the town would in majority want <br/>
to remain Spanish subjects. A transfer of Olivenza to Portugal <br/>
against the wishes of the majority of its citizens is not very nice...<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Mario Rodrigues &lt;marioruisr@m...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; If you  want to study the bordering conflict between Portugal and <br/>
Spain, see: <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.olivenca.org/litigio/index.html">http://www.olivenca.org/litigio/index.html</a><br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Regards<br/>
&gt; Mário Rodrigues </span></blockquote></div>