Andalucía speaks the Andalucian dialect of Castilian. Portugal speaks Portuguese, which is related to ancient Galician. So any union of Portugal and Andalusia would have to date back to before the 12th century (when Portugal adopted their Galician dialect as official language).
Is there any way for Portugal to control Sevilla pre-colonization?
Portugal achieving an incomplete victory in the War of Castilian Succession achieves precisely that. The Castilian crown may have been partitioned. Pre-war deals for partition were attempted.Frankly, it's near impossible without screwing massively Leon-Castille.
Portugal achieving an incomplete victory in the War of Castilian Succession achieves precisely that. The Castilian crown may have been partitioned. Pre-war deals for partition were attempted.
The thing it wouldn't be a Portuguese Andalusia, but part of Castillan Andalusia on a Portuguese-Castillan crown. Eventually, you'd have more chances to end with a more Castillanized Algrave than a more Lisutanized Andalusia.
Assuming this uneasy partition could held.
An entirely victorious Portugal in the WCS would likely see itself culturally drowned by the Castilian population, yes.The thing it wouldn't be a Portuguese Andalusia, but part of Castillan Andalusia on a Portuguese-Castillan crown. Eventually, you'd have more chances to end with a more Castillanized Algrave than a more Lisutanized Andalusia.
Assuming this uneasy partition could held.
Right, I was thinking about a partition of Andalusia and part of Castille proper based on Juanista's regional support. My bad.But OTL pre-war partition proposals were for Portugal to take over Galicia and Leon (and the Canaries and... Seville, too? can't remember).
Remember that Seville was among the main (if not the main) city on Castille, and that the whole region was an important focus would it be only trough plantation economy. Let alone the likely possibility to see Castille/Aragon trying to get it back at the first opportunity, it would be surprising to see it Lusitanized.Anyway, ATL's expanded Portugal following this pattern would be far from having a Castilian cultural matrix. It'd be more of a multi-cultural crown.
I'm not sure that *Leonese would be really distinct than Castillan ITTL, unless with an Ansbau-like separation (as it happened with Catalan and Occitan IOTL). Which is possible but doesn't strikes me as the obvious outcome, unless with a really earlier separation between two centers.
You may end with a bi-dialectal/cultural system rather than two cultures, IMO.
Eventually, I think that the easier (but not the latest) PoD may be in the VIIIth or IXth centuries : with an earlier fall of North-Eastern Al-Andalus and especially the al-Tagr al-A'la (Superior March) falling into an "Aragonese" (culturally speaking) equivalent (Maybe Navarro-Aragonese).
If it diverts enough energy from Leonese/Castillans, you may even see a stronger Lusitanian continuity.
I'm not sure you'd end with one clearly dominating Hispano-Roman culture, that said (at least in a first time), but it would still prevent Castillan domination.
Of course, it's just a rough idea : it would ask for more work and refinement to make it looks more or less plausible.
Well, it could work geopolitically (although I think that the usual reunion of Leon/Castille is more plausible than a definitive separation), but I'm not sure it wouldn't have been too late to make Leonese speeches a part of Galaico-Portuguese continuum : there were already well established litterature and cultural features at this point.
Very easy, they are already the "passing point" between castilian and galaico-portuguese, and close cohabitation with galaico-portuguese has not been strange, like the "Fala" y leonese Extremadura or "Mirandés" in Portugal.