Iberia
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9.3
- proper noun
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Iberia
- I COME TO NEW IBERIA ABOUT ONCE A MONTH TO SEE MY RELATIVES.
- New Iberia
- Iberia Parish
- Iberia High School
Examples
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The Iberia Parish Sheriff called the disaster, "The Coonass Mount Saint Helens," to the assembled throng of national media.
Blog text (12) -
There are ingots, some of copper that's perhaps from Iberia, and there are some other ingots of tin that were probably Cornish in origin.
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Property Tax Exemption Authority for New Iberia
Blog text (12) -
Sharon attends New Iberia Senior High School in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Academic text (2007) -
Sharon attends New Iberia Senior High School in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Academic text (2007) -
YOU'RE A LONG WAY FROM NEW IBERIA, DAVE.
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DAVE, YOU REMEMBER CLAUDETTE FROM NEW IBERIA.
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According to officials at NIH, the other 100 chimpanzees to be directly affected by this announcement will be deemed permanently ineligible for research and will be moved from New Iberia Research Center to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
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Thus, although the witness to the martyrdom of these children is preserved in the Georgian language, the traditional site of these events technically was part of the ancient Caucasus region more broadly, yet not of "K'art'li" or "Iberia" specifically.
Academic text (2007) -
The ancient region of Iberia was a crossroads of cultures, located south of the Caucasus Mountains.
Synonyms
An ancient kingdom south of the Caucasus Mountains in what is now eastern and southern Georgia
Compounds
An ancient kingdom south of the Caucasus Mountains in what is now eastern and southern Georgia
Surface Forms
Etymology
Iberia (the ancient region in the Caucasus) most likely comes from an old local name for the people or the land that Greek and Roman writers used for the kingdom now in Georgia. So when you read about Iberia in this part of history, think of the old country that later became part of modern Georgia.