How come there were 2 Iberia? 1 is old georgian nation, and the second one is a regiion in Spain. Did they have any historical contact with each other?
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Iberia
Noah Phillips
Xavier Hughes
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Luis Brooks
No, there is no relation between those two names
Lucas Morales
why did the regions have similar names? The people living there even spoke a seperate language, the mountains somewhere there had a georgian name.
David Edwards
greeks called our iberia because the locals they had contact would go "ibe ibe". The greeks also called the north portugal+galicia+asturias of ophiusa because some snake-dragon legends
Isaiah Martin
That's a stupid logic. It's like saying that Albania and this Albania and Scot Albania are connected
John Parker
>because some snake-dragon legends
We have a legend about a cova da serpe.
Bentley Richardson
but that still doesn't explain the tribes had georgian names in the regions, not Greek named.
It's not.
Brandon Watson
There was an Albania in the Caucasus too. Also unrelated to modern Albania.
Leo Stewart
The tribes in Georgia were called 'Ibereti' while in Spain no tribe was self-called smth related to iberia