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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANTABRI , an See also:

ancient tribe which inhabited the See also:north See also:coast of See also:Spain near See also:Santander and See also:Bilbao and the mountains behind—a See also:district hence known as Cantabria. See also:Savage and untameable mountaineers, they See also:long defied the See also:Roman arms and made them-selves a name for See also:wild freedom. They were first attacked by the See also:Romans about 150 B.c.; they were not subdued till See also:Agrippa and See also:Augustus had carried out a See also:series of See also:campaigns (29–19 B.C.) which ended in their partial annihilation. Thenceforward their See also:land was See also:part of the See also:province Hispania Tarraconensis with some measure of See also:local self-See also:government. They became slowly Romanized, but See also:developed little See also:town See also:life and are rarely mentioned in See also:history. They provided recruits for the Roman auxilia, like their neighbours the Astilres, and their land contained See also:lead mines, of which, however, little is known.

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