Cantabri
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC The Cantabri (, Kantabroi) or Ancient Cantabrians were a pre-Roman people and large tribal federation that lived in the northern coastal region of ancient Iberia in the second half of the first millennium BC. These peoples and their territories were incorporated into the Roman Province of Hispania Tarraconensis in 19 BC, following the Cantabrian Wars.
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- Name
- Geography
- History
- Origins
- Early history
- The Cantabrian Wars
- Romanization
- Early Middle Ages
- Culture
- Religion
- Language
- See also
- Notes
- References
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thumb|right|250px|The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC The Cantabri (, Kantabroi) or Ancient Cantabrians were a pre-Roman people and large tribal federation that lived in the northern coastal region of ancient Iberia in the second half of the first millennium BC. These peoples and their territories were incorporated into the Roman Province of Hispania Tarraconensis in 19 BC, following the Cantabrian Wars.
==Name== '' is a Latinized form of a local name, presumably meaning "Highlanders" and deriving from the reconstructed root *cant''- ("mountain") in Ancient Ligurian. During the High and Late Middle Ages, as well as Modern Period, the name refers usually to the Basques.