Question about Iberia.

[BrickHouse88]

Well Google says Iberian people are people from Spain and Portugal, since Spain and Portugal are on the Iberian peninsula.

Well if Spain and Portugal are on thee Iberian peninsula, why was the Kingdom of Iberia where present day Georgia is? On the other side of Europe.

Can someone explain how Spain and Portugal got named thee Iberian peninsula if the Iberian kingdom was on the eastern side of Europe?

 

[Mushroom]

Because it is on the Iberian Peninsula. It was named that by the Phoenicians, and that is how the word was translated by the Greeks in around 500 BCE. It is the same name that was originally used for the Ebro River, but over the thousands of years both have shifted.

The one in modern Georgia is named similarly, and also from the Greeks. But it morphed from the Armenian word for the region, which was "Iverk".

Might as well ask why you have the Georgian people way out in Eurasia, when the state of Georgia is in the Southwestern US.

 

[Muhammed]

Ancient Spanish DNA taken over by mysterious men from the East

A study of 8,000 years of genetics from Spain and Portugal yields a surprisingly complex picture of the inhabitants' ancestry.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[The Duke]

Isn't that a Cuban beer or drink or something?

Is it an actual beer or like Malta Patooey?

Non-alcoholic yet tastes like questionable beer? Fuck that!

If I want a malt beverage, bitch; I'll get some Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull or Mickey's or something. IF I want one.

 

[KissMy]

Because Iberia, MO allowed them a franchise.

 

[Polishprince]

Difference places same name. You'll have that. There is a Congo, West Virginia as well as Congo in Africa.

There is a Calcutta in Ohio as well as in India.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Well Google says Iberian people are people from Spain and Portugal, since Spain and Portugal are on the Iberian peninsula.

Well if Spain and Portugal are on thee Iberian peninsula, why was the Kingdom of Iberia where present day Georgia is? On the other side of Europe.

Can someone explain how Spain and Portugal got named thee Iberian peninsula if the Iberian kingdom was on the eastern side of Europe?

You also have a Galicia in Spain and one in somewhere around Ukraine/Belarus/Poland, the kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia and in a similar area the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

 

[BrickHouse88]

Well, I did a little research, and I’ve found out that people/historians call the Kingdom of Iberia “Caucasian Iberia” or “Eastern Iberia”, to help differentiate it from the Iberian Peninsula.

Present-day Spain area was once ruled over by Muslims, so I don’t know if people in Spain are descendants of people from the Kingdom of Iberia though. (Caucasian Iberia.)

Source: Kingdom of Iberia - Wikipedia