Meaning and Definition of Iberia

Definition of Iberia

The concept of Iberia has been so widespread in the ancient Greece to refer generally to the territory that today occupy countries as Spain, Andorra and Portugal and Gibraltar territorial divisions and the Eastern Pyrenees. We currently also tend to appoint to this part of the planet as Iberian peninsula in relationship precisely that denomination that knew how to flaunt in the past.
Later Greeks civilizations met that it was called that way, through written documents and books in which this territory is called Iberia.
The assumptions that exist about the origin of the name are varied and the current Ebro river that is located in the area is designated as a possible cause, since probably the Greeks would have called it Iber, meanwhile, there are others that speak of the existence of a town in those days called Iberians and hence would have been born the idea of calling this area as Iberia.
It should be noted is that Roman, back to the Greek civilization would have taken knowledge of that denomination and they adopted it also.
In times in which the Greeks were the most important human civilization on the planet had not so many advances in transport that just allowed to tour the area of Iberia and many others, was more what is known through some few who had actually come up there and brought some news like those mentioned in the Ibero town.
Already the Romans by a geographical issue had more chances of approaching her.
And on the other hand, the concept is used to refer to an airline of Spanish origin, one of the most important and most used in the world, to fly from one side of the continent to the other. Iberia is regarded as the most important Spain flag carrier, though, since the Decade of the nineties of the last century it was privatized. And recently, in 2011 he made a fusion with other well-known airline as it is Britain's British Airways.
Within Spain, and also from Latin America to Europe is the most contracted line.
It was founded in June of the year 1927.