Category:Iberia

Iberia (also known as the Iberian Peninsula, Península Ibérica in Asturian, Galician, Leonese, Mirandese, Portuguese, and Spanish, Península Ibèrica in Catalan, Peninsula Iberica in Aragonese and Occitan, Péninsule Ibérique in French and Iberiar Penintsula in Basque) is a peninsula stretching out of Southwestern Europe into the Atlantic Ocean. It includes modern-day Portugal, Spain, Andorra, the British overseas territory if Gibraltar and an extremely narrow portion of southwestern France next to the border of Spain and Andorra.

During Roman times the area is known as Hispania (Spain in Latin), in which later the Kingdom of Suebi in the West of the area, which was later annexed by the Visigothic Kingdom, which also controlled parts of France as well. Most Iberia was later invaded by the Umayyads who were Muslim people that fled from the Abbasid that killed most of the Umayyad family. At the Northwester portion of the area remain another Kingdom of Asturias which is covered up the present-day Spanish communities of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and Northern Castilé and Leon and a small portion of Northern Portugal.

Later, Emirate of Córdoba, or Moorish Spain, covered most of Iberia, with Kingdom of León taking a good-sized portion, larger than the previous Kingdom of Asturias. Later, the Kingdom will reconquer Emirate of Córdoba, which will later turn out as the Crown of Castile, leaving out the new Kingdom of Portugal, Navarre, Aragon and the small Islamic Kingdom of Granada (Castile later conquers it). Castile also conquers the New World, with parts of South America and the West Indies. Except for Portugal which formed the Iberian Union for 60 years, Iberian States united into what is known as Spain.