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

572,503

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, in the north of Spain.[1]

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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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