What would portugal look like if it lost it's empire early?

[Matt Damon™]

Presume that in the mid/late 19th Century, the other great powers decide to partition Portugal's colonial empire(including the azores/madeira) citing reasons like debt or Portugal being unable to fully control it's colonies. How is the internal situation of Portugal affected(I'm not talking about the fate of the colonies)? What changes politically, culturally, socioeconomically?

[12th Doctor]

Portuguese would be recognized as what it is, a dialect of Greater Spanish, and Portugal would look alot like Spain, on the map... because it would be.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I can't see the British going along with such a plan.  The Portuguese colonial empire was a useful adjunct to their own that they didn't have to worry about administering themselves or having a serious rival getting hold of.

[pbrower2a]

Presume that in the mid/late 19th Century, the other great powers decide to partition Portugal's colonial empire(including the azores/madeira) citing reasons like debt or Portugal being unable to fully control it's colonies. How is the internal situation of Portugal affected(I'm not talking about the fate of the colonies)? What changes politically, culturally, socioeconomically?

The only country that could have conceivably have taken over Portugal would have been Spain.  Madeira and the Azores would have gone to Spain. It would have become a very colorful region. like Catalonia, with a strong independence movement.

Question: How would the Spanish Civil War been different? Would the Republican side have been stronger?