Ibea
a name vaguely applied to British East Africa or the East African Protectorate, IBERIA (ib-e-re-ä or i-bērē-ä), in ancient geography: (1) A fertile district in Asia, between the Euxine and Caspian seas, which consisted of a plain surrounded by mountains, a part of modern Georgia. (2) An ancient name of Spain, from its river, the Ibērus (Ebro).
The Iberi or Iberians, probably the most ancient European nation, formed basis of the population of Italy, Gaul, Spain, and Lusitania (Portugal). Their language still lives in the Basque. The Celts, who entered the country later, were intermingled with them, the conjoined people being called Celtiberians.
LANTHINA (i-an'the-nä), in zoölogy, the violet snail; a genus of mollusks, family Haliotidæ. The shell is thin, translucent, trochiform; the aperture four-sided; the animal with a large head, muzzle-shaped, with a tentacle and an IBERIS (i-bēr'-is), a candy-tuft; a genus of cruciferous plants, family Thlaspidæ. I. amara, the bitter candy-tufta plant with white or purplish flowers.
IBERNIA. See HIBERNIA.
IBERUS IBERUS (i-bērus), a river of Spain, now the Ebro, which formerly separated the Roman from the Carthaginian possessions in that country; also a river of Iberia, in Asia, flowing from Mount Caucasus into the Koor.