Sentence:  Just as thousands that day in <WSD>Portugal</WSD> had seen the sun dancing in the sky , he had seen the same thing later in his own garden , and she turned to Agnese for confirmation . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)