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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - ham]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[In what place of the Iberian Peninsula did they do business with "excellent hams" 2,000 years ago?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/23687cad-03fb-423a-b19d-5ec2c191cd81_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>"Iberia resembles a bull's hide stretched from West to East in length, with the front parts facing East, and from North to South in width. It is approximately six thousand stadia in length; in width, in the widest band, it is about five thousand, although there are places below three thousand, especially in the Pyrenees, which are on the eastern side." These words serve as an introduction to the third book of the seventeen that make up the ambitious <em>Geography</em> of Strabo (c.63 BC–24 AD), focused on exploring the current Iberian Peninsula more than 2,000 years ago. The author delves into its main cities, temples, and rivers, but also into the peoples that inhabited it, among whom were the Astures, the Lusitanians, the Celtiberians, the Cerretani, and the Layetani. What did the ancient Greeks know about us? To what extent have we changed?</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordi Nopca]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 May 2026 05:19:19 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The Iberian Peninsula as seen from the International Space Station]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA['Iberia', by Strabo, which Xavier Biosca has translated for the first time into Catalan, allows us to find out what the ancient Greeks knew about "the bull's hide"]]></subtitle>
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