Search results
1 day ago · Name The Iberian Peninsula and Southern France, satellite photo on a cloudless day in March 2014 Greek name. The word Iberia is a noun adapted from the Latin word "Hiberia" originating in the Ancient Greek word Ἰβηρία (Ibēríā), used by Greek geographers under the rule of the Roman Empire to refer to what is known today in English as the Iberian Peninsula.
2 days ago · The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula , which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
3 days ago · The Portuguese colonize the Azores archipelago. 1462. The Portuguese colonize the Cape Verde archipelago. 1486. The Portuguese colonize the islands of São Tomé and Principe. 7 Jun 1494. Portugal and Spain sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the world into two spheres of influence. 8 Jul 1497 - Aug 1499.
- Mark Cartwright
- Publishing Director
People also ask
Where did the word Iberia come from?
How many people live in the Iberian Peninsula?
What is the current political configuration of the Iberian Peninsula?
When did the Romans take the Iberian Peninsula?
1 day ago · The Iberian Peninsula’s Islamic era was a time of “remarkable cross-cultural exchange between Christian, Jewish and Muslim populations,” notes the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its website ...
2 days ago · The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición ), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( Inquisición española ), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. It began toward the end of the Reconquista and was ...
- 15 July 1834
- Grand Inquisitor and Suprema designated by the crown
- 1 November 1478
3 days ago · Trumpeter Finch, the sixth species that has broken out of Africa and become an Iberian breeder, is now found easily in south-eastern Spain, following the first breeding record in 1971. Black-winged Kite is now easy to find in Iberia, but the first proven breeding records came from Portugal in 1944 and Spain as recently as 1975 (Lynn Griffiths).
3 days ago · One can think of Rome, Byzantium, the Persian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire of Charles V, the Islamic Caliphates, the Mongol and Mughal Empires, the Ottomans, and a succession of Chinese dynasties, leading into the expansion of European colonial empires in the nineteenth century (Burbank and Cooper, ). Imperial conquest was often resisted and ...
