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<p>[QUOTE="bcuda, post: 4185554, member: 105389"]I did not know the answer to your question so I looked around some. Here is a copy and paste with a vague answer to your question.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Iberian</b>, Spanish <b>Ibero</b>, one of a prehistoric people of southern and eastern Spain who later gave their name to the whole peninsula. The waves of migrating Celtic peoples from the 8th to 6th century bc onward settled heavily in northern and central Spain, penetrated Portugal and Galicia, but left the <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indigenous" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indigenous" rel="nofollow">indigenous</a> <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Bronze-Age" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Bronze-Age" rel="nofollow">Bronze Age</a> Iberian people of the south and east intact. Greek geographers give the name Iberian, probably connected with that of the Ebro (Iberus) River, to tribes settled on the southeastern coast, but, by the time of the Greek historian Herodotus (mid-5th century bc), it applied to all the peoples between the Ebro and Huelva rivers, who were probably linguistically connected and whose <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/material-culture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/material-culture" rel="nofollow">material culture</a> was distinct from that of the north and west. There were, however, areas of overlap between the Iberian and Celtic peoples, as in the Celtiberian tribes of the northeastern Meseta Central and in Catalonia and Aragon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bcuda, post: 4185554, member: 105389"]I did not know the answer to your question so I looked around some. Here is a copy and paste with a vague answer to your question. [B]Iberian[/B], Spanish [B]Ibero[/B], one of a prehistoric people of southern and eastern Spain who later gave their name to the whole peninsula. The waves of migrating Celtic peoples from the 8th to 6th century bc onward settled heavily in northern and central Spain, penetrated Portugal and Galicia, but left the [URL='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indigenous']indigenous[/URL] [URL='https://www.britannica.com/event/Bronze-Age']Bronze Age[/URL] Iberian people of the south and east intact. Greek geographers give the name Iberian, probably connected with that of the Ebro (Iberus) River, to tribes settled on the southeastern coast, but, by the time of the Greek historian Herodotus (mid-5th century bc), it applied to all the peoples between the Ebro and Huelva rivers, who were probably linguistically connected and whose [URL='https://www.britannica.com/topic/material-culture']material culture[/URL] was distinct from that of the north and west. There were, however, areas of overlap between the Iberian and Celtic peoples, as in the Celtiberian tribes of the northeastern Meseta Central and in Catalonia and Aragon.[/QUOTE]
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