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Definition of Iberian peninsula

1. Noun. A peninsula in southwestern Europe.

Definition of Iberian peninsula

1. Proper noun. A peninsula located in the extreme southwest of Europe which includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar, bordered on the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Pyrenees forming the northeast edge of the peninsula, connecting it to the rest of Europe. ¹

2. Proper noun. A peninsula situated in the extreme southwest of Europe, comprising (politically) Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar, and a very small area of France, delineated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenées and from other landmasses by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Strait of Gibraltar. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iberian Peninsula

Literary usage of Iberian peninsula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"THE GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE iberian peninsula. ... THE Iberian Peninsula is a region of contrasts, and although it is surrounded by the sea ..."

2. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"CHAPTER IX THE iberian peninsula AND THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE § 1. SPAIN If, through the prism of history, we analyse the Reforma- white light of ..."

3. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1908)
"The iberian peninsula, the south-western promontory of Europe, ... The Iberian Peninsula thus provides no traffic route between the ocean and the ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"The seeds of humanism were brought to the iberian peninsula by a few students who had visited Italy in the fifteenth century. The Spaniard Arias Barbosa, ..."

5. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... and the iberian peninsula.— During the eighteenth century France had fallen behind Great Britain, Germany, and Italy in the pursuit of geology and ..."

6. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"Apathy pervading the whole iberian peninsula. Tuesday, December 1st, 1795. IT was on a clear bright morning (scarce any frost) that we left a wretched place ..."

7. The Two Americas by Rafael Reyes (1914)
"... The iberian peninsula ¥ N the preceding introduction I referred to the movement now taking place in some of the Latin countries of Europe, ..."

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