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Why is Spain called 'Spain'?

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Spain was first called Iberia a name given to it by its Iberian inhabitants (from North Africa). The name was supposedly based on the Iberian word for river, Iber. They reached Spain around 6000 b.c. When the Greeks arrived on Spanish soil around 600 b.c. read more

2.b Theory of Euskera origin (Euskera is the language spoken in the an old Kingdom, located in the North of Spain and South of France). read more

The ancient Roman name for Iberia, Hispania, may derive from poetic use of the term Hesperia to refer to Spain, reflecting the Greek perception of Italy as a "western land" or "land of the setting sun" (Hesperia, Εσπερία in Greek) and Spain, being still further west, as Hesperia ultima. read more

At those times Spain was almost completely covered by woods and they said that a squirrel could travel from the Pyrenees to Gibraltar without touching the ground. Then the Romans. they called it Hispania. read more

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