Cantabrian people

Cantabrians
Total population

Notable Cantabrians: 'Beatus of Liébana' 'Juan de Herrera' 'Pedro Velarde y Santillán ' 'Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo ' ' Emilio Botín ' 'Seve Ballesteros'
591,886
Regions with significant populations
In Spain: Cantabria; Basque Country, Asturias, Cádiz, Madrid.
Languages
Castilian, Cantabrian.
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Asturian

The Cantabrians are an ethnic group living in the historical region of Cantabria, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula^[1]. Sometimes they are referred to as "montañeses" in English "Highlander". The term is also a demonym for the people of Canterbury, New Zealand and other areas named Canterbury.

References

^ "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.