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Iberian Peninsula

British  

noun

  1. a peninsula of SW Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In contrast, populations in the Iberian Peninsula, at the western edge of their range, may have lasted longer thanks to better-connected core areas.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

But as Rubio said, cowboy lineage can be traced to the Iberian Peninsula — as far back as the late medieval era, before Spain as a nation even existed.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

A deadly storm has triggered floods and thousands of evacuations on the Iberian Peninsula.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Slavery also grew in the Islamic world of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, we learn, and in sub-Saharan Africa during the first millennium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

From there, Islam spread through North Africa along the Mediterranean, across to the Iberian Peninsula, and over to France.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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