Caucasian Iberia

Iberia (Georgian — იბერია, Latin: Iberia or Iberi and Greek: ) also known as Iveria was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli (4th century BC-5th century AD) corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia. The term “Caucasian Iberia” (or Eastern Iberia) is used to distinguish it from the Iberian Peninsula, where the present day states of Spain, Andorra and Portugal are located. The Caucasian Iberians provided a basis for later Georgian statehood and formed a core of the present day Georgian people (or Kartvelians). What their possible relation to the Western Iberians was, or why both the peoples had the same name in Greek, is not known at present (but see below, under "Eastern and Western Iberians").
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