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The ancient Greeks discovered the Iberian peninsula by voyaging westward.
Hecataeus of Miletus was the first known to use the term around 500 BC.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus says of the Phocaeans that " it was they who made the Greeks acquainted with ...
Iberia.
" According to Strabo prior historians used Iberia to mean the country " this side of the Ἶβηρος ( Ibēros )" as far north as the Rhone river in France but currently they set the Pyrenees as the limit.
Polybius respects that limit but identifies Iberia as the Mediterranean side as far south as Gibraltar, with the Atlantic side having no name.
Elsewhere he says that Saguntum is " on the seaward foot of the range of hills connecting Iberia and Celtiberia.
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