Cantabrian people

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Cantabrians
Coroccotta Juan de la Cosa Jose María de Pereda
Notable Cantabrians:
'Beatus of Liébana'
'Emilio Botín'
'Juan de Herrera '
'Severiano Ballesteros
Total population
581,215
Regions with significant populations
In Spain: Cantabria; Basque Country, Asturias, Cádiz, Madrid.
Languages

Castilian, Cantabrian.

Religion

Roman Catholicism, Atheism, Agnosticism

Related ethnic groups

other Spanish peoples

The Cantabrians are an ethnic group or region living in the historical region of the Cantabria, at the North of the Iberian Peninsula[1]. Sometimes they are referred as "montañeses".

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  1. ^ "Even today, Cantabrians (the Pasiego included, Lebaniegos excluded), at the North of the Iberian Peninsula, seem to be a genetically well differentiated community, as deduced from uniparental and autosomal markers, perhaps to a higher degree than their neighbours, the Basques". http://grupos.unican.es/acanto/aep/bolpas/Ann-Hum-Genet.pdf.

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