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Cantabrian

Cantabrian \Can*ta"bri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.

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Cantabrian

Cantabrian or Cantabrians may refer to:

  • People and things related to the modern Spanish autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria
    • Cantabrian people, modern inhabitants of Cantabria
    • Cantabrian Mountains, mountain range in Northern Spain
    • Cantabrian Sea, southern end of the Bay of Biscay
    • Cantabrian dialect, also known as montañés, a transition dialect between Asturleonese and Spanish, spoken in northern Spain
    • Cantabri, the ancient Celtic inhabitants of Cantabria
    • Cantabrian Wars, war during the Roman conquest of the ancient Cantabria and Asturias
    • Cantabrian circle, a military tactic employed by ancient Cantabri horse archers
  • People from the region of Canterbury, New Zealand

Usage examples of "cantabrian".

Thus in Biscay, the original Cantabrian, and in Dalecarlia, the old Swedish still subsists.

Bodichon claims that the Iberians embraced the Ligurians, Cantabrians, Asturians, and Aquitanians.

It is with these men -- significantly -- that the beautiful cave paintings are associated of the French Pyrenees, French Dordogne, and Spanish Cantabrian hills.

Bayonne on the north, Pampeluna on the south, and San Sebastian on the west, including a portion of the Cantabrian mountains.

It was a cold, bleak morning in the beginning of March, and the mist was drifting in dense rolling clouds through the passes of the Cantabrian mountains.

Then up rose from the hill in the rugged Cantabrian valley a sound such as had not been heard in those parts before, nor was again, until the streams which rippled amid the rocks had been frozen by over four hundred winters and thawed by as many returning springs.