A link on the Western move of proto-Celtic peoples who gave their name to geographic Spain (Iberia) and Hibernia (Roman name of Ireland) off Irish coast. Habur gate and river in Southeastern Turkey (iber/hiber) comes from the same root. An earlier Celtic zone in Syria and Iran.
The considerable part of the Asia Minor population belonged to the proto-Iberian race, represented by the Meskhians or Moschoi, Cappadocians, Colchians, Taochoi, and others. The Indo-Europeans seem to have arrived in Europe later, viz. after the second millennium B.C., whereas the proto--Iberian or palaeo-Mediterranean and palaeo-Caucasian population is believed to have been on the upgrade from earliest times to the third millennium B.C. The decline of these people, i. e. their numerical diminishment and assimilation by the newly arriving Indo-Europeans, commenced in the third millennium.
Mavi Boncuk |
Caucasian Iberia
Iberia (Georgian — იბერია, Latin: Iberia or Iberi and Greek: Ἰβηρία), also known as Iveria (Georgian: ივერია), was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli [1] (4th century BC-5th century AD) corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia. [2][3]
The term Caucasian Iberia (or Eastern Iberia) is used to distinguish it from the Iberian Peninsula, where the present day states of Spain and Portugal are located. The Caucasian Iberians provided a basis for later Georgian statehood and along with Colchis (early western Georgian state) formed a core of the present day Georgian people (or Kartvelians). [4] [5]
Notes
1 Course of Ancient Geography, Henry Immanuel Smith, p. 279
2 The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, Geoffrey Greatrex, Samuel N. C. Lieu, p. 82
3 The Emperor Domitian, Brian W. Jones, p. 156
4 The Making of the Georgian Nation, Ronald Grigor Suny, p. 13
5 Readings in the History of the Ancient World, William Coffman McDermott, Wallace Everett Caldwell, p. 404
The considerable part of the Asia Minor population belonged to the proto-Iberian race, represented by the Meskhians or Moschoi, Cappadocians, Colchians, Taochoi, and others. The Indo-Europeans seem to have arrived in Europe later, viz. after the second millennium B.C., whereas the proto--Iberian or palaeo-Mediterranean and palaeo-Caucasian population is believed to have been on the upgrade from earliest times to the third millennium B.C. The decline of these people, i. e. their numerical diminishment and assimilation by the newly arriving Indo-Europeans, commenced in the third millennium.
Mavi Boncuk |
Caucasian Iberia
Iberia (Georgian — იბერია, Latin: Iberia or Iberi and Greek: Ἰβηρία), also known as Iveria (Georgian: ივერია), was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli [1] (4th century BC-5th century AD) corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia. [2][3]
The term Caucasian Iberia (or Eastern Iberia) is used to distinguish it from the Iberian Peninsula, where the present day states of Spain and Portugal are located. The Caucasian Iberians provided a basis for later Georgian statehood and along with Colchis (early western Georgian state) formed a core of the present day Georgian people (or Kartvelians). [4] [5]
Notes
1 Course of Ancient Geography, Henry Immanuel Smith, p. 279
2 The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, Geoffrey Greatrex, Samuel N. C. Lieu, p. 82
3 The Emperor Domitian, Brian W. Jones, p. 156
4 The Making of the Georgian Nation, Ronald Grigor Suny, p. 13
5 Readings in the History of the Ancient World, William Coffman McDermott, Wallace Everett Caldwell, p. 404