CANTABR.I, an ancient tribe which inhabited the north coast of Spain near Santander and Bilbao and the mountains be hind—a district hence known as Cantabria. Savage and untame able mountaineers, they long defied the Roman arms and made themselves a name for wild freedom. (Cf. Horace, Odes, ii. 6, 2, Cantabrum indoctusn jugs ferre nostra.) They were first attacked by the Romans about 15o B.C. and were not subdued till Agrippa and Augustus had carried out a series of campaigns (29-19 B.e. ) which ended in their partial annihilation. Thenceforward their land was part of the province Hispania Tarraconensis, with some measure of local self-government.