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In 1965, as the scale of fighting increased, Portugal attempted to purchase 100 surplus Canadian built Sabre Mk 6s from West Germany, but instead, it was offered 40 G.91R/4s,[38] which had originally been built for Greece and Turkey and which differed from the rest of the Luftwaffe G.91s sufficiently to create maintenance problems in exchange for allowing Germany to build and use an airbase at Beja in Portugal for training.[37][39]

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Ataegina (Spanish: Ataecina; Portuguese: Atégina)[1] was a goddess worshipped by the ancient Iberians, Lusitanians, and Celtiberians of the Iberian Peninsula. She is believed to have ruled the underworld.

The deity's name is variously attested as Ataegina, Ataecina, Adaecina and Adaegina,[2] among other spellings.[3] Her name appears in conjunction to a place named Turibriga or Turobriga (see below).[4]

The name Ataegina is most commonly derived from a Celtic source: according to Cristina Maria Grilo Lopes and Juan Olivares Pedreño, French scholar D'Arbois de Jubainville and Portuguese scholar José Leite de Vasconcelos interpreted her name as a compound atae 'repetition' and gina, from *-genos '(to be) born'. Thus, her name would mean 'The Reborn One' ("renascida", in the original).[5][6][7]

Others propose a connection to the domain of nocturnal or underworld deities: Gabriel Sopeña [es] tentatively saw a connection with Irish adaig 'night', which may indicate a relation to the underworld.[8] Similarly, in a 1998 article, Eugenio Luján, based on the epigraphic evidence available until then, supposed that Adaecina is the original spelling of her name, and related it to Irish adaig,[a] and both deriving from a Proto-Celtic *adakī. This form would account for both words, but Luján refrained from offering a definitive etymology.[11]

In his late 19th century study, José Leite de Vasconcelos, while proposing a Celtic reading of her name, also supposed her origins as a Celticized indigenous deity.[15] Spanish historian José María Blázquez Martínez [es] supported the idea of Ataegina's indigenous character, while remarking that a Celtic interpretation of her name as 'reborn' is "inviable", and that her connection to Irish 'night' is "difficult".[16]

Ataegina was worshipped in Lusitania and Betica; there were also sanctuaries dedicated to Ataegina in Elvas (Portugal), and Mérida and Cáceres in Spain, along with other places, especially near the Guadiana river. She was one of the goddesses worshipped in Myrtilis (today's Mértola, Portugal), Pax Julia (Beja, Portugal). A bronze plaque from Malpartida de Cáceres suggests associations with the goat as a sacred animal.[17][7][18] 041b061a72