Peninsula in Europe

Usage examples of iberian.

Less exposed to Hellenic and Roman culture than the CeltIberians, the Lusitani were probably somewhat less Celtic than Iberian in racial content, though the two strains were mixed in them.

He had flown to Madrid, then took a connecting flight on Iberian Airlines to La Coruna, in Galicia.

From the Iberian Caucasus, the most lofty and craggy mountains of Asia, that river descends with such oblique vehemence, that in a short space it is traversed by one hundred and twenty bridges.

In a course of one hundred miles, forty of which are navigable for large vessels, the Phasis divides the celebrated region of Colchos, or Mingrelia, which, on three sides, is fortified by the Iberian and Armenian mountains, and whose maritime coast extends about two hundred miles from the neighborhood of Trebizond to Dioscurias and the confines of Circassia.

Because the don was a gachupin, a wearer of spurs, people would assume that I, too, was born on the Iberian Peninsula.

Gades is the Cadiz of today, and the dominion of Gadeirus embraced the land of the Iberians or Basques, their chief city taking its name from a king of Atlantis, and they themselves being Atlanteans.

According to Genesis, the descendants of the Japheth who escaped out of the Flood with Noah are the Ionians, the inhabitants of the Morea, the dwellers on the Cilician coast of Asia Minor, the Cyprians, the Dodoneans of Macedonia, the Iberians, and the Thracians.

Libyan-Amazons of Diodorus--that is to say, the Libyans of the Iberian race--must be identified with the Libyans with brown and grizzly skin, of whom Brugsch has already pointed out the representations figured on the Egyptian monuments of the fourth dynasty.

Bodichon claims that the Iberians embraced the Ligurians, Cantabrians, Asturians, and Aquitanians.

Besides that, tankers do less damage if they sink in deep water rather than break up on a coast, and we're over the Iberian Abyssal Plain here.

Ralph smiled at the description of the ancient trade muskets, many of which had survived Wellington's Iberian campaign and some of which had seen action at Bull Run and Gettysburg before being shipped out to Africa in trade.

His apartment had an Iberian theme, with ornate Spanish colonial furniture, twisted shapes in dark wood.

Some hooded monks stand tenebrously at my side, but I am not disturbed, I am fascinated by the Iberian imagination.