Iberia

Pronunciation

• UK, IPA: /aɪˈbɪə(ɹ).iÉ™/
• Rhymes: -ɪəriÉ™

From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēria), after the river Ἴβηρος (Ibēros), which itself came from a native Celtiberian name for the river *Ibēr (modern Spanish Ebro).

Full definition of Iberia

Proper noun

1. The region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
• 2006, w, Internal Combustion Chapter 2, 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.

Related terms

• Iberian
• iberis

From Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēria). Possibly from the same source as Old Armenian Վիրք.

Alternative forms

• Iveria

Proper noun

1. (historical) Antic and Byzantine name of the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli located east of Colchis, corresponding roughly to the eastern parts of present-day Georgia.

Synonyms

• Caucasian Iberia