Iberia vs Marrano - What's the difference?
iberia | marrano |
The region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
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, chapter=2 (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.
(historical) Any of the Sephardi Jews who stayed in Iberia during the Spanish Inquisition, and continued to practice Judaism in secret.
*1999 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 161:
*:In the Portuguese universities, the Marranos had studied logic, physics, medicine and mathematics, but they had no expertise in the more intuitive disciplines of Jewish practice.
As a proper noun iberia
is (region south of the pyrenees).As a noun marrano is
(historical) any of the sephardi jews who stayed in iberia during the spanish inquisition, and continued to practice judaism in secret.iberia
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Iberia, from (etyl) (modern (etyl) Ebro). (pedia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)citation, passage=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.}}