Iberian
Iberian refers to Iberia. Most commonly Iberian refers to:
- Someone or something originating in the Iberian Peninsula, namely from Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra.
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The term Iberian is also used to refer to anything pertaining to the former Kingdom of Iberia, an exonym for the Georgian kingdom of Kartli.
Iberian Peninsula
- Iberians, one of the ancient Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (not to be confused with the Celtiberians)
- Iberian language, the language of the ancient Iberians
- Iberian scripts, the writing scripts of the ancient Iberians
- Basque and Iberian deities
- Iberian weapons
- Iberian mountain range or Sistema Ibérico
- South-Western Iberian Bronze, Bronze Age culture of southern Portugal and nearby areas of Spain
- Iberian Union, a personal union between the crowns of Spain and Portugal from 1580 to 1640
Ibero-America
- Ibero-America, a term since the second half of the 19th century to refer collectively to the countries in the Americas that are of Spanish and Portuguese origin
- Organization of Ibero-American States, an intergovernmental organization, comprising the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations of the Americas and Europe, plus Equatorial Guinea in Africa
Kingdom of Iberia
- Iberians, Greco-Roman designation for Georgians
- Bacurius the Iberian, Georgian general
- Peter the Iberian, Georgian theologian and philosopher
- Hilarion the Iberian, Georgian monk
- John the Iberian, Georgian monk, founder of Iviron monastery on Mount Athos
- Gabriel the Iberian, Georgian monk
- Prochorus the Iberian, Georgian monk, founder of the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem
- Anthim the Iberian, Georgian theologian, scholar; Metropolitan of Bucharest
- Iberian War, fought from 526 to 532 CE between the Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanid Empire over the eastern Georgian kingdom of Iberia
Other
- Daily Iberian, newspaper in New Iberia, Louisiana
- Iberian horse, collective name of horse breeds native to the Iberian Peninsula
- Iberian lynx, critically endangered lynx native to the Iberian Peninsula
- Iberian wolf, subspecies of grey wolf inhabiting northern Portugal and northwestern Spain
- Iberian gauge, rail gauge used in Spain and Portugal
See also
- Ibero-Caucasian languages (or Iberian-Caucasian languages)
- Kartvelian languages
- Hispanic and Hispanophone
- Lusitanic and Lusophone
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