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Iberians
Iberians ancient people of Spain. Some scholars have argued that they migrated from Africa in the Neolithic period and again at the end of the Bronze Age, while the archaeological evidence has been interpreted to suggest that Iberians had an E Mediterranean origin dating to the 3d millenium BC They... Read more
Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula c.230,400 sq mi (596,740 sq km), SW Europe, separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees. Comprising Spain and Portugal , it is washed on the N and W by the Atlantic Ocean and on the S and E by the Mediterranean Sea; the Strait of Gibraltar separates it from Africa. The Ib... Read more
Elche
Elche , Valencian Elx, city (1990 pop. 184,912), Alicante prov., SE Spain, in Valencia. It is surrounded by an extensive grove of date palms, the only one of its kind in Europe. The city's industries produce footwear, soap, olive oil, and palm products. Elche preserves a North African atmosphere. ... Read more
University of Southern California
University of Southern California at Los Angeles; coeducational; chartered and opened 1880. The university has a liberal arts college and a graduate school as well as schools of architecture, urban and regional planning, engineering, safety and systems management, business administration, cinema an... Read more
Douro
Douro or Duero , river, c.475 mi (765 km) long, rising in the Sierra de Urbión, N central Spain. It flows W across N Spain, then southwest to form part of the Spanish-Portuguese border before flowing W across N Portugal to the Atlantic Ocean at Pôrto. One of the longest rivers of th... Read more
Lusitania
Lusitania , Roman province in the Iberian Peninsula. As constituted (c.AD 5) by Augustus it included all of modern central Portugal as well as much of W Spain. The province took its name from the Lusitani, a group of warlike tribes who, despite defeats, resisted Roman domination until their great le... Read more
Paulus Orosius
Paulus Orosius , c.385-420, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian, b. Tarragona, Spain or Braga, Portugal. He went to see St. Augustine (c.413) and wrote, on request, a summary of the errors of Priscillian and of Origen. Augustine then sent him to Palestine to warn St. Jerome of the menace of Pe... Read more
Balearic Islands
Balearic Islands , Span. Baleares , archipelago, off Spain, in the W Mediterranean, forming Baleares prov. (1990 pop. 767,918) of Spain; also an autonomous region since 1983. Palma is the capital. The chief islands are Majorca, Minorca, and Ibiza. Noted for their scenery and their mild climate, the... Read more
Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha , autonomous region (1990 pop. 1,695,144), central Spain, encompassing the provinces of Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Albacete. It was established as an autonomous region in 1982. It is in the historical region of New Castile. Its plains are drained by the Tagus and... Read more
Gulf Stream
Gulf Stream warm ocean current of the N Atlantic Ocean, off E North America. It was first described (1513) by Spanish explorer Ponce de León . The Gulf Stream originates in the Gulf of Mexico and, as the Florida Current, passes through the Straits of Florida and along the coast of SE United... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Iberians"

Iberians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Iberians ancient people of Spain. Some scholars...evidence has been interpreted to suggest that Iberians had an E Mediterranean origin dating to...After the Roman conquest of Spain the Iberians gradually accepted Roman culture. The...
Hamilcar Barca
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Hamilcar fought successfully against Tartessians, Celts, and Iberians in southern and western Spain. Then he transferred his line of operations to the east, reduced the Iberians north of Cape Palos, pushed forward the Carthaginian frontier...
Galicians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...develop independently. History and Cultural Relations The Iberians migrated to Spain in the third millennium b.c.e., probably...gender equality, ultimately triumphed. Augustus romanized the Iberians in 19 b.c.e., cutting up the peninsula into a series...
Castilians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...comprises two present-day regions: Castile-and-Le ó n and Castile-La Mancha. Its original inhabitants were Iberians and Celts who were later conquered by the Romans and the Moors. The Reconquista — the centuries-long crusade to...
Welsh Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...The country was named after its inhabitants. The Welsh trace their ancestry to two distinct groups of people — the Iberians who arrived from southwestern Europe in Neolithic times and the Celtic tribes who arrived on the island in the late Bronze...
Portugal
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies ...and from EU countries. The Portuguese are primarily of Mediterranean descent, as their ancestry can be traced to ancient Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors (Arabs). Black African citizens who immigrated to the mainland during the de-colonization...
Race, Theories of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...slavery ever witnessed existed in the colonies of those societies that enjoyed the "freest" labor markets at home. Although Iberians in the islands off the coast of Africa first introduced plantation economies, and although millions of African slaves wound...
Valencia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...a nuclear power plant was built in Valencia prov. Many prehistoric remains have been found in Valencia. Inhabited by the Iberians in early times, it was later colonized by Greek and Carthaginian traders. It was a battlefield between the Carthaginians...
Balearic Islands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...spoken. Inhabited since prehistoric times—there are numerous Cyclopean remains—the islands were occupied by Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, and Byzantines. The Moors, who first came in the 8th cent., established...
Catalans (Països Catalans)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Catalonia antedates historical records, with Paleolithic and Neolithic remains. Successive immigrations have included Celts, Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans (who established a capital in Tarragona in the first century b.c.e.), Jews, Visigoths...

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Iberians are looking too hot to handle; CZECH REPUBLIC v PORTUGAL GROUP A itv 1 5pm.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 6/11/2008; 700 words ; ...overcame Turkey 2-0 to announce themselves as real candidates in Switzerland and Austria, and many will be expecting the Iberians to make it six points out of six. While Phil Scolari's team dominated against the Turks, Czech Republic were extremely...
Iberia Before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; In Iberia before the Iberians Lawrence Straus has written a synthetic account of the nature of human occupation from the last interglacial to the beginnings...
Iberians move north on mill plan
Magazine article from: PPI; 1/1/2003; ; 446 words ; PORTUGAL Sonae and Europac have cut away the red tape on plans to build a new waste-- based containerboard mill in Portugal. The Portuguese government has allowed Sonae and the Spanish packaging producer to shift the location of the mill from Mourao on Portugal's border with Spain's Badajoz region
Iberians hooked on humble turbot
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/11/1995; ; 397 words ; Deep in the cold waters of the Canada and Greenland continental slopes lives the Greenland halibut, known there - but not here - as the turbot, writes Nicholas Schoon. It is a flat fish which can grow up to a metre long, although the ones being caught by Spanish and Portuguese deep-water trawlers
The archaeology of the Iberians.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ARTURO RUIZ & MANUEL MOLINOS (tr. Mary Turton). xiv+335 pages, 99 illustrations. 1998. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-56402-6 hardback [pounds]40, The characterization of the indigenous is a current concern of many archaeologists with a global vision (Funari et al. 1999). In the
Football: Uefa Cup: Serious Iberians pose a real threat to Italy.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 3/11/2004; 607 words ; Byline: Steve Palmer ITALIAN teams rarely take the Uefa Cup seriously and, although the casual betting shop football-coupon punter may be drawn to the glamorous names of Inter and Roma for tonight's fourth-round first legs, the Serie A giants should both be backed to lose. Inter, who were thrashed
Iberos, de moda. (exposición en Europa)(TT: Iberians, in style) (TA: exposition in Europe)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 3/31/1997; 403 words ; Los iberos van a estar de moda. París, Barcelona y Bonn acogerán, entre octubre de 1997 y agosto de 1998, una gran exposición, fruto de la colaboración entre España, Francia y Alemania, que reúne 350 piezas de 26 instituciones españolas y siete museos franceses. Se pretende dar a conocer al gran
Quentin Willson Column: A Spainful experience; INSANE IBERIANS DRIVE ME TO A FRENZY.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 7/26/2002; 633 words ; Byline: Quentin Willson DRIVING abroad always requires a moment's mental adjustment. I've experienced the metropolitan marathon in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Dubai and even Moscow, but when it comes to astonishingly bad driving the Spanish must lead the world by a considerable margin. Watching them
PENALTY PUTS PAID TO SPANISH HIGHS; Disallowed goal robs Iberians of semi-final spot but co-hosts march on
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 6/23/2002; ; 700+ words ; Spain 0 South Korea 0 SOUTH Korea's charmed, but charming, progress in the World Cup continued in the cauldron of Gwangju yesterday when they beat Spain on penalties to become the first Asian side to reach the tournament's semi-finals. Given their supreme fitness and unquenchable team spirit, who
El regreso de los Iberos. (objetos variados; Fundación Caja de Pensiones; Barcelona, España; incluye artículo sobre exposición en Toledo)(TT: The return of the Iberians) (TA: varied objects; Caja de Pensiones Foundation; Barcelona, Spain; includes article about exhibition in Toledo)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 1/19/1998; 700+ words ; En la Fundación Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona Cuando en Europa resurgen los nacionalismos y la idea de búsqueda de una identidad de origen ya difuso crece, la exposición que sobre los Iberos recorre Alemania, Francia y España, es un ejemplo superador, un excelente método para desarticular todas esas