Concept in Definition ABC

The concept of Iberia has been used extensively in Ancient Greece to generally designate the territory that today occupy countries such as Spain, Andorra, and Portugal and the territorial divisions of Gibraltar and the Eastern Pyrenees. In the present We also usually designate this part of the planet as the Iberian Peninsula in relation to precisely that denomination that he knew how to show off in the past.

The civilizations after the Greeks knew that it was called that way through written documents and books in which that territory appears called Iberia.
The presumptions that exist about the origin of the denomination are varied and point to the current River Ebro found in the area as a possible cause, since probably the Greeks would have called it Iber, meanwhile, there are others who speak of the existence of a town at that time called Iberos and from there the idea of ​​calling that area Iberia would have been born.

It should be noted that the civilization Roman, after the Greek, would have learned of that denomination and they also adopted it.

In times when the Greeks were the most important human civilization on the planet, there were not so many advances in terms of transport that precisely allowed to travel the area of ​​Iberia and many others, it was more what was known through some few who had actually reached there and brought certain news such as those mentioned from the town Iberian.
The Romans, due to a geographical issue, had a better chance of approaching it.

And on the other hand, the concept is used to name an airline of Spanish origin, one of the most important and used in the world, to fly from one side of the world to the other. continent. Iberia is considered the most important flag airline in Spain, although, since the nineties of the last century it was privatized. And recently, in 2011, it made a merger with another well-known airline such as British Airway of Great Britain.
Within Spain and also Latin America bound for Europe is the most contracted line.
It was founded in June 1927.