Iberia

//aɪˈbɪə̯ɹ.i.ə// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A peninsula and region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.

    "Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands."

  2. 2
    An antique and Byzantine name for the geographic region and ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli in Eastern Europe, located east of Colchis, corresponding roughly to the eastern parts of present-day Georgia. historical
  3. 3
    A city and town in Missouri.
  4. 4
    A census-designated place in Ohio.

Synonyms

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caucasian iberiacaucasian iberiaiberian peninsula

Example

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"European Portuguese is the Danish of Iberia."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría), after Ἴβηρος (Íbēros, “the river Ebro”). See Iberia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

[Alt: Iberia] From Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría). Possibly from the same source as Old Armenian Վիրք (Virkʻ).

Related phrases

Christian IberiaIberia ParishNew IberiaPrincipality of IberiaUpper Iberia

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