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Iberian refers to Iberia, which has two basic meanings, the disused, of Caucasian Iberia
Caucasian Iberia

Iberia , also known as Iveria , was a name given by the ancient Ancient Greece and Roman Empire to the ancient Georgia kingdom of Kartli corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia....
 (corresponding roughly to modern-day Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
), and the modern sense of someone or something originating in the Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
, namely from Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 and Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
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Iberian refers to Iberia, which has two basic meanings, the disused, of Caucasian Iberia
Caucasian Iberia

Iberia , also known as Iveria , was a name given by the ancient Ancient Greece and Roman Empire to the ancient Georgia kingdom of Kartli corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia....
 (corresponding roughly to modern-day Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
), and the modern sense of someone or something originating in the Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
, namely from Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 and Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
. It may refer to:

Ancient history


Iberian Peninsula

  • South-Western Iberian Bronze
    South-Western Iberian Bronze

    The South-Western Iberian Bronze is a loosely-defined Bronze Age culture of Southern Portugal and nearby areas of SW Spain . It replaced the earlier urban and European Megalithic Culture existing in that same region in the Chalcolithic age....
    , Bronze Age culture of southern Portugal and nearby areas of Spain
  • Iberians
    Iberians

    The Iberians were a set of peoples that Ancient Greece and ancient Rome sources identified with that name in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula at least from the 6th century BC....
    , one of the ancient Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
    Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

    This is a list of the Pre-Ancient Rome peoples of the Iberian peninsula ....
     (should not be confused with the Celtiberians
    Celtiberians

    The Celtiberians were a Celtic languages-speaking people of the Iberian Peninsula in the final centuries BCE. The group originated when Celts migrated from Gaul and integrated with the local Pre-Indo-European populations of Iberia, in particular the Iberians....
    )
    • Iberian language
      Iberian language

      The Iberian language was the language of a people identified by Ancient Greece and ancient Rome sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian peninsula....
      , the language of the ancient Iberians
    • Iberian scripts
      Iberian scripts

      The Iberian scripts are the Paleohispanic scripts that were used to represent the extinct Iberian language. Most of them are typologically very unusual in that they are semi-syllabary rather than purely alphabetic....
      , the writing scripts of the ancient Iberians
      • Northeastern Iberian script
        Northeastern Iberian script

        The northeastern Iberian script is also known as Levantine Iberian or Iberian, because it is the Iberian script that was most frequently used, and was the main means of written expression of the Iberian language....
      • Southeastern Iberian script
        Southeastern Iberian script

        The southeastern Iberian script, also known as Meridional Iberian, was one of the means of written expression of the Iberian language, which was written mainly in the northeastern Iberian script and residually by the Greco-Iberian alphabet....
      • Greco-Iberian alphabet
        Greco-Iberian alphabet

        The Greco-Iberian alphabet is a direct adaptation of an Ionic Greek variant of a Greek alphabet to the specifics of the Iberian language, thus this script is an alphabet and lacks the distinctive characteristic of the rest of paleohispanic scripts that present signs with syllabic value, for the occlusives and signs with monophonemic value for t...
    • Basque and Iberian deities
    • Iberian weapons


Caucasian Iberia

  • Caucasian Iberians
    Caucasian Iberians

    The Caucasian Iberians was a Greco-Roman designation for ancient Georgians, Ibero-Caucasian languages who inhabited the east and southeast of the Transcaucasus region in prehistoric and historic times....
    , Greco-Roman designation for Georgians
  • Iberian War
    Iberian War

    The Iberian War was fought from 526 to 532 between the Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanid Empire over the eastern Georgians kingdom of Caucasian Iberia....
    , fought from 526 to 532 CE between the Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanid Empire over the eastern Georgian kingdom of Iberia

People
  • Anthim the Iberian
    Anthim the Iberian

    Anthim the Iberian was one of the greatest ecclesiastic figures of Wallachia , a noted Eastern Orthodox Church Theology and Philosophy, founder of the first printing press in Romania, and Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia of Bucharest in 1708-1715....
    , 1650—1716, Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher in Romania, from Georgia
  • John the Iberian
    John the Iberian

    John the Iberian was a Georgia monk, who is venerated as a saint. A member of the Georgian nobility, he was married and served as a military commander....
    , d. ca. 1002, Georgian monk
  • Peter the Iberian
    Peter the Iberian

    Peter the Iberian, or Peter of Iberia, is a Georgian Orthodox saint, who was a prominent figure in early Christianity.Some of his accomplishments are the foundination the first Georgian monastery in Bethlehem and being the bishop of Gaza near Mayuma....
    , c. 411-491, Georgian Orthodox saint


Modern history


Cultural similarities of the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

  • Iberian languages
    Iberian languages

    Iberian languages is a generic term for the languages currently or formerly spoken in the Iberian peninsula....
     (see also Gallo-Iberian languages
    Gallo-Iberian

    Gallo-Romance languages *Gallo-Italic languages**Lombard language***Western Lombard***Eastern Lombard**Piedmontese language**Emiliano-Romagnolo...
    )
  • Iberian Romance languages
    Iberian Romance languages

    This article is about a subdivision of the Romance language family. For the broader group of languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula, see Iberian languages....
  • West Iberian languages
    West Iberian languages

    West Iberian is a branch of the Romance languages which includes Spanish language, Ladino language, the Astur-Leonese group Speakers of West Iberian languages generally claim that they are all mutually intelligible to some extent....
  • Languages of Spain
    Languages of Spain

    The languages of Spain are the languages spoken or once spoken in Spain....
  • Languages of Portugal
    Languages of Portugal

    The languages of Portugal are the languages spoken or once spoken in the territory of the country of Portugal....
  • Iberian naming customs
    Iberian naming customs

    In Spanish language-speaking countries, people typically have one or more forenames and two family name, the first inherited from the father and the second from the mother....
    • Portuguese names
    • Spanish naming customs


Modern peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

  • Portuguese people
    Portuguese people

    The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....
  • Spanish people
    Spanish people

    Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....
    , with its multiple national and regional identities
    • Andalusian people
      Andalusian people

      The Andalusians are the inhabitants of the remote southern region in Spain. They are generally not considered an ethnically distinct people because they lack two of the most important markers of distinctiveness: their own language and an awareness of a presumed common origin....
    • Aragonese people
      Aragonese people

      The Aragonese are an ethnic group or nation living in the region of Aragon, between the center and the north-east of Spain. Their native Aragonese language, which might have been spoken in the whole of the Kingdom of Aragon in the Middle Ages, is nowadays a seriously endangered language, natively spoken only by a few thousands in some norther...
    • Asturian people
      Asturian people

      The Asturians are one of the Nationalisms and regionalisms of Spain of Spain, issuing from the historical country of the Principality of Asturias, and also from the provinces of Le?n , Zamora and Cantabria....
    • Basque people
      Basque people

      The Basques are a people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France.The name Basque derives from the ancient tribe of the Vascones, described by Ancient Greece historian Strabo as living south of the western Pyrenees and north of the Ebro River, in modern day Navarre and northern Aragon....
    • Canarian people
      Canarian people

      The Canarians are an ethnic group or nation living in the archipelago of the Canary Islands , near the coast of Western Africa. The variety of the Spanish language spoken in the region is the Habla Canaria or the Dialecto Canario , a distinctive dialect of Spanish spoken in the islands....
    • Cantabrian people
      Cantabrian people

      The Cantabrians are a people living at the North of the Iberian Peninsula."Even today, Cantabrians , at the North of the Iberian Peninsula, seem to be a genetically well differentiated community, as deduced from uniparental and autosomal markers, perhaps to a higher degree than their neighbours, the Basques"....
    • Catalan people
      Catalan people

      The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous Community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France ? known in Catalonia proper as Catalunya Nord , and in France as the Pays Catalan ? are often included in this definition....
    • Castilian people
      Castilian people

      The Castilian people are the inhabitants of those regions in Spain where most people identify themselves as Castilian. They include Castile La Mancha, Madrid, and a part of Castile and Leon....
    • Extremaduran people
    • Galician people
      Galician people

      The Galicians are an ethnic group or nationality whose homeland is Galicia , which is a Historical regions in Spain in Southwestern Europe, embracing a territory situated in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula....
    • Valencian people
      Valencian people

      The Valencians are an ethnic group or nationality whose homeland is Valencian Community, which is a historical region in south-eastern Spain. The languages of Valencia are Valencian and Spanish....


Other

  • 2007 Iberian Peninsula earthquake
    2007 Iberian Peninsula earthquake

    The Iberian Peninsula earthquake happened at 11:23 a.m. Central European time on February 12, 2007 with an epicentre at 160km southwest of Cabo de S?o Vicente, Portugal....
  • Iberian Communist Federation
    Iberian Communist Federation

    Catalan-Balear Communist Federation was a communist group in Spain. Formed in 1924, it joined the Communist Party of Spain , and functioned as the PCE federation in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands....
    , communist group in Spain
    • Iberian Communist Youth
      Iberian Communist Youth

      Iberian Communist Youth was the youth wing of the Iberian Communist Federation, and later of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification . JCI had its main strength in Catalonia and the Llevant ....
      , the youth organization of the Iberian Communist Federation
  • Iberian Anarchist Federation (Federación Anarquista Ibérica, FAI), a Spanish organization of Anarchist (Anarcho-Syndicalist) militants.
    • Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias)
  • Iberian chronicles
  • Iberian Federalism, early 20th century ideology purporting the federation of Portugal and Spain
  • Iberian Jews
    List of Iberian Jews

    Jews had lived in the Iberian peninsula since the Dark Ages, experiencing a semi-Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain under Muslim rule. Following the Reconquista and increasing persecution, they were expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497....
    , also known as Sephardi Jews
    Sephardi Jews

    Sephardi Jews are a subgroup of Jews originating in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, usually defined in contrast to Ashkenazi or Mizrahi Jews....
  • Iberian Pact
    Iberian Pact

    The Iberian Pact , officially the Treaty of Friendship and Nonaggression between Portugal and Spain , was an Public international law treaty signed on 17 March 1939 between Portugal's Right-wing politics dictatorship of the Estado Novo , under Ant?nio de Oliveira Salazar, and Spain's Spain under Franco of Francisco Franco, who had just...
    , in 1939 between the Portuguese right-wing dictatorship and the Spanish right-wing dictatorship
  • Iberian Union
    Iberian Union

    Iberian Union is a modern day term that refers to the historical political unit that governed all of the Iberian peninsula south of the Pyrenees from 1580?1640, through a personal union....
    , political unit that governed all of Iberia from 1580-1640, as a personal union
  • International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
    International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory

    International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory is a Portugal-Spain international nanotechnology research organization, in Braga, Portugal. It was founded in 2008 by the governments of Portugal and Spain, two southern European states of the Iberian Peninsula....
    , Portuguese-Spanish international nanotechnology research organization


Animals of the Iberian Peninsula

  • Iberian Barbel
    Iberian Barbel

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  • Iberian Emerald Lizard
    Iberian Emerald Lizard

    The Iberian Emerald Lizard or Schreiber's Green Lizard is a species of lizard in the Lacertidae family.It is found in Portugal and Spain....
  • Iberian Frog
    Iberian Frog

    The Iberian Frog or Rana Patilarga is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.It is found in Portugal and Spain.Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, and swamps....
  • Iberian horse
    Iberian horse

    The Iberian horse is a title given to a number of list of horse breeds native to the Iberian peninsula. At present, 17 horse breeds are recognized by FAO as characteristics of the Iberian Peninsula....
  • Iberian Lynx
    Iberian Lynx

    The Iberian lynx , sometimes referred to as the Spanish lynx, is a critically endangered feline mammal native to the Iberian Peninsula in Southern Europe, being the...
  • Iberian Midwife Toad
    Iberian Midwife Toad

    The Iberian Midwife Toad or Sapo Partero Ib?rico is a species of frog in the Discoglossidae family.It is found in Portugal and Spain.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, and aquaculture ponds....
  • Iberian Nase
    Iberian Nase

    The Iberian Nase is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found in Portugal and Spain.Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers....
  • Iberian Painted Frog
    Iberian Painted Frog

    The Iberian Painted Frog or Sapillo Pintojo Ib?rico is a species of frog in the Discoglossidae family.It is found in Portugal and Spain....
  • Iberian Ribbed Newt
    Iberian Ribbed Newt

    The Iberian ribbed newt or Spanish ribbed newt is a newt endemic to the central and southern Iberian Peninsula and Morocco. It is known for its sharp ribs which can puncture through its sides, and as such is also called the sharp-ribbed newt....
  • Iberian Rock Lizard
    Iberian Rock Lizard

    name = Iberian Rock Lizard| image = Iberolacerta monticola.001.JPG| status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1| regnum = Animalia| phylum = Chordata| classis = Reptilia...
  • Iberian Shrew
    Iberian Shrew

    The Iberian Shrew or Lagranja Shrew is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family. It is found in Portugal and Spain....
  • Iberian Wolf
    Iberian Wolf

    The Iberian wolf is a subspecies of grey wolf that inhabits the forest and plains of northern Portugal and northwestern Spain....
  • Iberian Worm Lizard
    Iberian Worm Lizard

    The Iberian Worm Lizard or European Worm Lizard is a species of reptile in the Amphisbaenidae family. It is locally known as "Cobra-cega" , "culebrilla ciega" and "colobreta cega" ...
  • Iberian cattle


Other

  • Iberian Gate and Chapel
    Iberian Gate and Chapel

    Resurrection Gate is the only existing gate of the Kitai-gorod in Moscow. It connects the north-western end of Red Square with Manege Square and gives its name to nearby Voskresenskaya Square ....
    , the only existing gate of the Kitai-gorod in Moscow, Russia


See also

  • Hispanic
    Hispanic

    Hispanic is a term that historically denoted relation to the ancient Hispania . During the Modern Era, it took on a more limited meaning relating to the contemporary nation of Spain....
     and Hispanophone
    Hispanophone

    The term Hispanophone denotes Spanish language speakers and relation to the Spanish-speaking world. The word originates with the Latin language political name of the Iberian Peninsula, Hispania, which comprised basically the territory of the modern states of Spain and Portugal....
  • Lusitanic
    Lusitanic

    Lusitanic , from Latin language Lusitanicus, adjective from Lusitania, the name of a Ancient Rome province in the Iberian Peninsula) is a term used to categorize persons who share the linguistic and cultural traditions of the Portuguese language....
     and Lusophone
    Lusophone

    A Lusophone is someone who speaks the Portuguese language natively or by adoption. As an adjective, it means "Portuguese-speaking". The word itself is derived from the name of the ancient Ancient Rome Roman province of Lusitania, which covered an area that is today Portugal....