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  1. Nov 30, 2018 · In the final years of the 3rd century BC, the Iberian peninsula became the staging ground for the war between Carthage and Rome, accelerating a series of transformations that affected all levels of life.

  2. Lynne Booker How Salazar avoided both civil war in Portugal and entanglement in World War 2. Iberian Dictators in a time of instability General Franco was one of four dictators who changed the face of Europe during the 20th Century Although he appeared to lack the evil genius of Hitler, the comic charisma of Mussolini and the ruthless paranoia of Stalin, he succeeded in retaining absolute ...

  3. Spain - Iberians, Pyrenees, Mediterranean: The indigenous Bronze Age societies reacted vigorously to the culture of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks, adopting eastern Mediterranean values and technologies. At first the process of assimilation was exclusive, affecting few people; then it gathered pace and volume, drawing entire societies into the transformation. Everywhere the process of ...

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  5. Aug 18, 2019 · When these elements got fused with the native Iberian peoples, a new identity was formed and it was formidable. One example is the Iberian falcata – a formidable weapon iconic to the pre-Roman Iberia, a fusion of Celtic sickle-blade designs and the indigenous weapons. This weapon is today a common trademark sign of the Celtiberians. Iberian ...

  6. c. 53 million. The Iberian Peninsula ( / aɪˈbɪəriən / ), [a] also known as Iberia, [b] is a peninsula in South-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia. It is divided between Continental Portugal and Peninsular Spain, comprising most of the region, as well as Andorra, Gibraltar, and a small part of Southern France ( French ...

    • 583,254 km² (225,196 sq mi)
    • Mulhacén
    • c. 53 million
    • Europe
  7. Autonomous cultural developments of native Iberians were stimulated by maritime powers that sailed west along the Mediterranean: the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans, each growing in their imperial reach and providing a base for later political and economic developments.

  8. Mar 14, 2019 · A skeleton from an elaborate grave in central Spain about 4,400 years old belonged to a man whose ancestry was 100 percent North African. “That’s crazy,” said David Reich, a geneticist at ...

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