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Pyrenees vs Iberia - What's the difference?

pyrenees | iberia |

pyrenees

English

(wikipedia Pyrenees)

Proper noun

(en-proper noun) (p)
  • The mountain range separating Spain from France, inhabited by Basques in the west and Catalans in the east.

    • References

    iberia

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) Iberia, from (etyl) (modern (etyl) Ebro). (pedia)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 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.}}
    Related terms
    * Iberian * iberis

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . (Caucasian Iberia)

    Alternative forms

    * Iveria

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (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
    See also
    * Colchis * Albania, Caucasian Albania