(Ἴβηροι/Íbēroi, Ἴβηρες/Íbēres). I. and Iberia (Ἰβηρία/Ibēría), as terms for the inhabitants and country of East Georgia, occur only in Graeco-Roman and Byzantine sources; possibly etymologically related to virkʿ (Armenian) or Sáspeires (Σάσπειρες, Hdt. 4,37; 40) [1. 146]. Iberia was bordered in the north by Sarmatia, in the west by Colchis, in the south by Greater Armenia ( Armenia) and in the east by Albania [1] (Ptol. 5,10,1f.).
Armenia; Georgia, Georgians; Georgian
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