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Following the Roman conquest of Spain, however, it was restricted to the area of Santander and eastern Asturias, forming a part of Hispania Tarraconensis ("Tarragonan Spain"). [27] The principal tribes of the area were the Pleutauri , the Varduli , the Autrigones , the Tuisi , and the Conisci or Concaui , who were known for feeding on their ...
The following 73 pages use this file: 1941 Santander fire; 1992 Summer Olympics torch relay; 2013–14 Tercera División; 2014–15 Tercera División
Mowing meadows in Cantabria. On the Cantabrian coast, dispersed settlements predominate. It is often referred to as Green Spain (a direct translation into English of the Spanish España Verde) because its wet and temperate oceanic climate helps lush pastures and forests thrive, providing a landscape similar to that of Ireland, Great Britain, and the west coast of France.
Spain location map.svg (by NordNordWest). This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: España-Canarias-loc.svg (by Miguillen ).
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
Santander (UK: / ˌ s æ n t ən ˈ d ɛər,-t æ n-/ SAN-tən-DAIR, -tan-, US: / ˌ s ɑː n t ɑː n ˈ d ɛər / SAHN-tahn-DAIR; [3] [4] Spanish: [santanˈdeɾ]) is the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. It has a population of 172,000 (2017). [5] It is a port city located in the northern coast of the Iberian ...
Map of Spain with the province of Cantabria highlighted Coat of arms of Cantabria.. Cantabria is one of the sixteen autonomous communities of Spain.It is divided into 102 municipalities, in accordance with the organizations of territories put forth in Article 137 of the 1978 Constitution of Spain:
The Bay of Santander is both a comarca of Cantabria and the largest estuary on the North coast of Spain, with an extension of 22.42 km 2 (9 km long and 5 km wide). Due to the influence of Santander and its metropolitan area, [3] nearly half of the population of the autonomous community of Cantabria is gathered around it, [4] which makes the anthropic pressure on this area of water quite notable.