Was azores always a part of Portugal?

Answer 1

No, it wasn't. However, Spain did invade Portuguese territory. Also, both Spain and Portugal were once part of the Roman Empire. The entire Iberian Peninsula, which is today modern day Spain and Portugal was called, "Hispania" by the Romans. Hence you can see why native Spanish speakers are called "Hispanic". Later in the A.D's, Portugal became an indpendant Roman province known as "Lustiania" the native Portuguese speakers are known as "Lusitanics", the Portuguese variant of a Hispanic.

This also why Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are so identical. Because not only do they belong to the Italic-Romance family but the people from today's Spain, Portugal and Italy were all once Romans. The French, Romanian and Moldovan languages sure are part of the family but they aren't intelligible with the other three.

Spain and Portugal, had a lot of historical and cultural ties therefore. As Spain, Italy and Portugal are the earliest known Roman Catholic civilizations.
Yes It was part of Spain once. Between 1580 and 1640 Portugal and Spain shared the same King, although they were "legally" two separate countries.

To summarize, in 1580 the Portuguese King dies with no descendants and in the list of succesion there was the spanish King, Felipe II of Spain which would be Felipe I of Portugal, and other noblish people. Two more Felipe's would come, the last one to be the IV of Spain, III of Portugal.

In 1st December 1640, there was a revolution to put a new King from other branch of the Portuguese Royal Family, which would be John IV. This King would make Portugal again truly separated from Spain.

Prior to all this, the people from iberic peninsula had a common heritage but we can't say that Portugal was part of Spain as Spain had never existed before.

There was Hispania (Iberic peninsula) in Roman Times but in fact portuguese people have the heritage of the Lusitanian people (equivalent to the gauls for nowadays France) which is more or less Portugal's territory today.

To make the answer a bit more clear, the following events placed Portugal under Spain's control in 1580.

Philip II was an heir to Charles V. Philip II not only possessed the Spanish kingdoms, but in 1580 he inherited Portugal. This placed the entire Iberian peninsula under his control.

Answer 2

Azores is an archipelago and its islands are far from each other. It was a place where many ships crashed, Portugal saw those Islands recognised as theirs after the Tordesilhas treaty. No other country ever had it.

Answer 3

Since its establishment in 1142, Portugal was occupied by two countries.

Spain, with whom Portugal merged peacefully after the demise of its king, then later separated through war.

France, during the Napoleonic invasions.

Answer 4

Portugal had a long period of independence from the 12th Century CE, when it took advantage of fighting between Spanish Cordoba and Leon to break free. It became a long-time ally of Britain and maintained its independence, becoming a maritime power and explorer, and using this to establish colonial power in South America, Africa and the Indo-Pacific area as a trading nation, extending to India, Malaya, the East Indies, the Spice Islands and as far east as Japan. The pope was asked to adjudicate on the division of the world, and awarded half the globe west of a line through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to Spain and the half to the east of that line to Portugal.

In the 16th Century Spain took the opportunity to take Portugal over after the Portuguese king died without an heir. A century later Portugal fought for and regained its independence, and remains an independent state.

Portugal had its own language, government, an empire to rival Spain's, and the desire to maintain it's separate identity.

Answer 5

Spain never occupied Portugal, but there was a time when both countries were governed by the same King.