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In our timeline, the Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira Islands, and Cape Verde were parts of Portugal and Spain. With a date of 1492 or later, when could any or all of those islands be transferred to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, "Germany" (or its predecessors), or Norway, Sweden, or Denmark, and under which circumstances? They would be transferred such that today, 2014, an Englander would be able to vacation in the Canarys, for example, and feel perfectly at home there.
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