From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Erland Sommarskog  wrote:   
   > Dan Tilque (dtilque@frontier.com) writes:   
   > > My major problem with this question is what constitutes an interruption.   
   > > After thinking about it, I concluded that occupation by a foreign power   
   > > (e.g. Nazis, Napoleon) counted as an interruption. Hence I excluded   
   > > Austria, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Japan and others.   
      
   > Good point. I had longer interruptions in mind, like Portugal actually   
   > being part of Spain for 60 years.   
      
   I don't think it was, though. FWIW Wikipedia agrees with me, saying   
      
   "This was a personal union, so the Kingdoms of Portugal and Spain   
   remained independent states, sharing only a single monarch."   
      
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