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The Cantabri (Ancient Greek: ''Καντάβροι'' | ''Kantabroi'') were a pre-Roman Celtic people and large tribal federation that lived in the northern coastal region of ancient Iberia in the second half of the first millennium BC. These peoples and their territories were incorporated into the Roman Province of Hispania Tarraconensis in the year 19 BC, following the Cantabrian Wars. ==Origins== The ancestors of the Cantabri were thought by the Romans to have migrated to the Iberian Peninsula around the 4th Century BC,〔Pliny the Elder, ''Historia Naturalis'', III, 29.〕〔Strabo, ''Geographikon'', III, 4, 12.〕 and were said by them to be more mixed than most peninsular Celtic peoples, their eleven or so tribes, assessed by Roman writers according to their names, were supposed to have included Gallic, Celtiberian, Indo-Aryan, Aquitanian, and Ligurian origins. Their tribal name ‘Cantabri’ supposedly means “Highlanders”, derived from the root *''cant''- , or ‘mountain’ attributed to the Ligurian language.〔Martino, ''Roma contra Cantabros y Astures'' (1982), p. 18, note 15.〕 A detailed analysis of place-names in ancient Cantabria shows a strong Celtic element along with an almost equally strong "Para-Celtic" element (both Indo-European) and thus disproves the idea of a substantial pre-Indo-European or Basque presence in the region. This supports the earlier view that Jürgen Untermann considered the most plausible, coinciding with archaeological evidence put forward by Ruiz-Gálvez in 1998, that the Celtic settlement of the Iberian Peninsula was made by people who arrived via the Atlantic Ocean in an area between Brittany and the mouth of the River Garonne, finally settling along the Galician and Cantabrian coast. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cantabri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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