Lead researcher: Dick de Boer, University of Groningen, Netherlands; Lead researcher of the Portuguese group: Luis Adão da Fonseca; Lead researcher of the Spanish group, integrated in the Portuguese group: Eduardo Pardo de Guevara y Valdés.
Financing body: European Science Foundation «EuroCORECODE Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs)», Funded by: ETF, FIST, FCT, GAČR, NURCR, NOW.
Time period: 2010-2013.
Objective: A diachronic analysis (12th to 19th centuries) of a group of European regions with different morphological, typological and historical variety, in order to understand – in view of their historical processes – how they became legally recognised and strongly united regional entities, or independent states, or poorly identified cultural regions.