Pre-Roman tribal federation of the mountainous northern coast of Iberia (modern Cantabria and eastern Asturias, Spain); the name likely derives from a root meaning 'highlanders'.
Their prolonged resistance in the Cantabrian Wars (29-19 BC) was among Rome's hardest-fought Iberian conquests; incorporated into Hispania Tarraconensis in 19 BC, the ethnonym persisted as a recognized Roman-era regional/ethnic identity into the 1st century AD.
Covers the Cantabrian Wars and the Roman provincialization of northern Iberia.