Caucasian Iberians  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
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Iberia.  Caucasian Iberians a Greco-Roman designation for the
population of Caucasian Iberia, presumably a Kartvelian
(Georgian) speaking people in east and southeast of the
Transcaucasus region in prehistoric and early historic times.[1]
Ancient Iberians are identified as modern eastern Georgians who
have originated from the early Georgian state of Caucasian
Iberia.[2][3] In southwest, Iberians extended into Anatolia,
inhabiting interior lands beside Colchians, who lived along the
littoral area.   The area was inhabited in earliest times by
several relative tribes of Tibareni, Mushki, Saspers, Gugars,
Diaokhi, etc., collectively called Iberians (the Eastern
Iberians) by ancient Greek (Herodotus, Strabo, etc.) and Roman
authors. Iberians called their country Kartli after a mythic
chief, Kartlos. One of the Iberian tribes of Mtskheta (the
future capital of the Iberian kingdom) dominat