The Cantabri were an ancient confederacy of eleven tribes, perhaps Celtic or Vasconic pre-Indo European, that inhabited the north coast of Hispania in the whole modern province of Cantabria, the eastern third of Asturias and the nearby mountainous regions of modern Castile-Leon. According to Strabo the Cantabrians were either formerly called Lusitanians or as according to Julius Caesar, they were a tribe of native origin. Regarded as savage and untamable mountaineers, they long defied the Roman… (More on Cantabri)