Guess the Country

[Delfos]

what countries were about to be united but the whole thing collapsed because 'officially' someone fell of the horse and died, when we all know he was assassinated?

[FeherTigris]

looks too tough for everybody. more clues?

[Delfos]

both countries have maritime borders, Country A having history of an "armada" that lost on their 1st goal, Country B having history of becoming independent: once locking the king's mother on a castle tower, another for throwing country A's diplomats out of the window of their residency.

[New History lovers]

I'm guessing A is Spain, and B is England.

[Delfos]

country A was ease cuz of the Invincible Arma :p, altho country B is incorrect, (it doesnt fit the part with the horse, im unsure either or not english become independent twice, once locking the king's mother in a castle and a 2nd time throwing spanish diplomats out of a window...were they? and were the english becoming united with the spanish ever? )

from now is easy

another clue for country B: there's a funny part in country's B history, where he conquered many lands in the south where the plantations were, whenever the plantations were blooming the Arabians came running conquering the lands again, and eat all plantations. and then again country B conquered the plantations again, and then when they were blooming the Arabs came again, and so on...AGAIN!

i doubt you'll find which country has this history above, rather obvious you should find countries with past history of Arabian invasions.

anyway the country is very easy now.

[New History lovers]

Portugal?

Oh, and, on England, it did almost merge with Spain on at least one occasion (I am not sure if there was more than once), when Bloody Mary married Philip II of Spain.  They had no children, so they did not merge, but it was bloody close.

[Delfos]

oh i remember that, more than once actually, but its not the same thing as unification, England would be part of a single nation. and yes it was portugal and spain, the prince that 'fell off the horse' was portuguese to marry some princess in spain and create an Iberian nation.

about the funny things, of the Independence of Portugal, 1st king of Portugal locked his mother in a castle towards so she couldnt prevent the creation of Portugal. Later on, our blood line broke, and for some magical powers, the king of Spain Filipe II, become king of Portugal Filipe I, after 3 dinasties, Filipe III of spain=Filipe II of Portugal, Filipe IV of spain=Filipe III of Portugal, we got fed up, there's a story about a diplomat that locked himself in a (how you call those big cases to put cloths on..?) that, and got trowed out the window with the diplomat inside, i dont recall if there was any other diplomat thrown off the window.

[New History lovers]

Yay!  M turn.

This country has been separately ruled, at different times by Spain and the United Kingdom, and was taken from the former by the latter during the 18th century.

[Delfos]

oh i think i know, but cant recall the name, those islands near north Africa! there's a polemic thing going on because of those islands, it's supposed to be spannish, but somehow the english got ruling it, there's alot of spannish that want those islands as spannish territory (and they are right).

But then i would like Spain to give our territory back in South of spain, they stole us territory, when UN formed the borders we got stole several Km in the south! GIVE US OLIVENÇA BACK!

[orsis]

Gibraltar

[New History lovers]

It's NOT the islands near North Africa, and while Gibraltar was taken around the same time, Gibraltar is NOT a country, it is a part of the UK.

[tak]

Malta?

[Delfos]

i would bet on malta..

[New History lovers]

Takasia.  Right.

[Delfos]

I was right about my perception..those islands near north Africa...im bad with names :p