So when the Catholic Kings (Isabella and Fernando) called their new joint-kingdom “Spain” that was pretty much a message to the Portuguese and everyone in the peninsula that “yep we rule this whole place”. There’s loads of medieval and early modern Portuguese literature where the Portuguese call themselves Spanish. It came from the Latin name for the Iberian Peninsula, Hispania.
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