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None!Other European countries, FOLLOWED Portugal and Spain...
English, French and Dutch arrived at any place in Africa, more than 100 years
after the Portuguese.
Exploration in their cases is a strong word.
They generally assaulted the portuguese possessions taking advantage of
the fact those were underprotected while Portugal was under Spanish
government - A 60 year period (1580-1640) called Iberian Union.
Also the period of the Invencible Armada, and as they all were at war with
Spain they took the "political" decision to consider the unprotected portuguese
possessions as "Spanish"...

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