{"id":1893,"date":"2010-05-28T14:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T14:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/iberia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:02:44","slug":"iberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/iberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Iberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I<\/strong><strong>beria<\/strong> was the ancient name for the peninsula that is today home to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spain\/\">Spain<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/portugal\/\">Portugal<\/a>. Most Iberian centred theories have identified <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/andalusia\/\">Andalusia<\/a> as the most likely location for Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Iberia-Caucasus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22372\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Iberia-Caucasus-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Iberia Caucasus\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Iberia-Caucasus-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Iberia-Caucasus.jpg 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Iberia is also the name of an early kingdom on the eastern coast of the Black Sea,\u00a0known as Kartli in Georgian. This fact is used by the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schoppe-christian-siegfried\/\">Schoppes<\/a> to support their Atlantis in the Black Sea theory. This ancient Iberia in the Caucasus\u00a0is sometimes claimed as the original home of wine<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>, now dated to around 6000 BC<sup>(d)<\/sup>!<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>However, the most recent studies place the earliest evidence for wine production in Italy in the 4th millennium BC.<sup>(c)<\/sup><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A short history of this Georgian Iberia is available online<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/www.argophilia.com\/news\/georgia-origin-of-wine\/24367\/ (Link broken)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20241202150446\/http:\/\/www.conflicts.rem33.com\/images\/Georgia\/Caucasian%20Iberia.htm\">iveria (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/popular-archaeology.com\/issue\/summer-2017\/article\/world-s-oldest-italian-wine-just-discovered\">https:\/\/popular-archaeology.com\/issue\/summer-2017\/article\/world-s-oldest-italian-wine-just-discovered<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(d) <\/sup>(<em>BBC<\/em> Nov 13, 2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-41977709\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-41977709<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iberia was the ancient name for the peninsula that is today home to Spain and Portugal. Most Iberian centred theories have identified Andalusia as the most likely location for Atlantis. Iberia is also the name of an early kingdom on the eastern coast of the Black Sea,\u00a0known as Kartli in Georgian. This fact is used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,27,2010,1392,602,116,2643],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andalusia","tag-black-sea","tag-caucasus","tag-christian-siegfried-schoppe","tag-georgia","tag-iberia","tag-wine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64492,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/64492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}