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Iberian

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Iberian

Any member of a prehistoric people of southern and eastern Spain. They were largely untouched by the migrations of Celtic peoples to northern and central Spain beginning in the 8th century BC. Culturally they were influenced by Greek and Phoenician trading colonies. On the eastern coast, tribes seem to have formed independent city-states; in the south, they formed monarchies. Their economy was based on agriculture, mining, and metallurgy. Their non-Indo-European language continued into Roman times.


Iberian
1. a member of a group of ancient Caucasoid peoples who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula in preclassical and classical times
2. a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula; a Spaniard or Portuguese
3. a native or inhabitant of ancient Iberia in the Caucasus
4. denoting, or relating to the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula or of Caucasian Iberia


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Remember that Pellean conqueror, A youth, how all the beauties of the East He slightly viewed, and slightly overpassed; How he surnamed of Africa dismissed, In his prime youth, the fair Iberian maid.
Customs at Carthage, Lacedse-mon, and amongst the Scythians and Iberians, concerning those who had killed an enemy, 204, 205
 
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