IBERIA  

    - Latin Hibērī,* from Greek Iberes; of unknown origin. Name of a Celtic people of 6c BC

Spain, also used by the Romans for the entire Spanish Peninsula.

      Possibly a local hydronym [name = nym for a body of water = hydro] for modern day

      River Ebro, called Hibērī / Iberes in Basque, (similar to Iberian; ibar = valley & ibai = river,

so Ebro (former Iberes) River could mean just river, or valley river making Iberians

something like the people of the river, or river valley. (Interestingly it was also an exonym

given to the Kingdom 🔍 of Iberia, a completely unrelated Asiatic people: the Kartvelians,

c. 302 BC – 580 AD, near the Caucasus' 🔍 in what is now Georgia.) 

  * Roman sources also use the term Hispani for the Iberian people, source of modern Hispanic