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Introduction to Iberian ethnicity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Then the word Iberia was used to refer to a mythic place where Heracles performed his eleventh labour in the Garden of the Hesperides, a well-known region with a lot of gold mines. This region was named too after the Iber river<\/strong>, located aproximately in the current Huelva (southeast of Spain), and to refer to the different peoples who lived in this region (the Iberians, who were seen from the Greek sight as a unitary folk, with shared traditions and ways of life).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There the term referred to the place where Heracles performed his eleventh labor in the Garden of the Hesperides, a place famous for the richness of its gold mines. A region located around present-day Huelva and was used to refer to the surrounding territory of the \u00cdber river<\/strong> and its inhabitants, the Iberians, a group of peoples of different political nature but united in the eyes of the Greeks by shared customs and ways of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As centuries pass by, the Greeks would explore the rest of the Peninsula, and so the concept would change, from the 5th century BC when the word only named a small region, to the 1st century BC, when greek geographer Estrabon would use the word Iberia to refer to the whole Peninsula. And so, this concept would remain as far as today, when we use the word to refer Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Iberians\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The formation of the Iberian group<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Iberian ethnic group, genetically speaking, was shaped chiefly during the first 1200 years of our era<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celtiberian and Iberian native peoples from the Peninsula, who had dwelled in the peninsula from centuries before, lived a long process of mixing and living with different european folks<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n