Did you know that in times of Neo-Assyrian Empire the Levant (which is Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestina) used to be called EBER-NARI?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eber-Nari
If we assume it was Ibernari (which we have a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay big right to), the whole Levant suddenly turns into one huge Iberia - 'land of Ibers': IBER-N-AR-I. Do you remember so called NARI ending for various trees forests, like 'mukhnari', 'pitchvnari', etc? That's the same ending, only used for people, not trees. In fact, NARI is a combination of two suffixes: Old Kartvelian plural N-suffix, and Svan toponymic AR-suffix, meaning 'place of...'
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