Iberia

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_peninsula, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberians




The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Portugal, Spain,Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France.   It is bordered on the southeast and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north, west and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The Pyrenees form the northeast edge of the peninsula, separating it from the rest of Europe. In the south, it approaches the northern coast of Africa. It is the second-largest peninsula in Europe, with an area of 582,860 square kilometres (225,040 sq mi).


The term Iberian  refered to tho whole of the population of the Iberian peninsula. The other, more restricted, with an ethnic sense , to the people living in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula.