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Iberians
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(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

Bibliography

1 O. Lordkipanidse, Archäologie in Geor…

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Savvidis, Kyriakos (Bochum), “Iberians”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e521640>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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