Tales From The Land Of Rabbits
John A. Crow explains it perfectly in Spain, The Root and the Flower, University of California Press, 1985:Spain was first called Iberia, a name given to it by its Iberian inhabitants (from North Africa). The name was supposedly based on the Iberian word for river, Iber. They reached Spain around 6000 BCE. When the Greeks arrived on Spanish soil around 600 BCE. they referred to the peninsula as Hesperia, meaning land of the setting sun. When the Carthaginians came around 300 BCE. they called the country Ispania (from Sphan, rabbit), which means land of the rabbits. The Romans arrived a century later and adopted the Carthaginian name of the co…
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- ISBN: 978-1-913500-90-0
- EAN: 9781913500900
- Produktnummer: 33601292
- Verlag: Clive Gilson
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 649 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 649
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