Map - Cantabria region, Spain - postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Cantabria map
• Publisher:  Dominiquez, Madrid, c.1970s
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Cantabria (English /kæn't??bri?/, /kæn'tæbri?/; Spanish: [kan'taß?ja]) is a Spanish historical community^[2] and autonomous community with Santander as its capital city. It is bordered on the east by the Basque Autonomous Community (province of Biscay), on the south by Castile and León (provinces of León, Palencia and Burgos), on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea (Bay of Biscay).

Cantabria belongs to Green Spain, the name given to the strip of land between the Bay of Biscay and the Cantabrian Mountains, so called because of its particularly lush vegetation, due to the wet and moderate oceanic climate. The climate is strongly influenced by Atlantic Ocean winds trapped by the mountains; the average precipitation is about 1,200 mm (47 inches).

Cantabria is the richest region in the world for archaeological sites from the Upper Paleolithic period, although the first signs of human occupation date from Lower Paleolithic. The most significant site for cave paintings is that in the cave of Altamira, dating from about 37,000 BC^[3] and declared, along with nine other Cantabrian caves, as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

The modern Province of Cantabria was constituted on 28 July 1778. The Organic Law of the Autonomy Statute of Cantabria was approved on 30 December 1981, giving the region its own institutions of self-government.

Numerous authors, including Isidore of Seville, Julio Caro Baroja, Aureliano Fernández Guerra, Joaquín González Echegaray, and Adolf Schulten, have explored the etymology of the name ""Cantabria"", yet its origins remain uncertain. It is generally accepted that the root cant- comes from Celtic for ""rock"" or ""stone"", while -abr was a common suffix used in Celtic regions. Thus, ""Cantabrian"" could mean ""people who live in the rocks"" or highlanders, a reference to the steep and mountainous territory of Cantabria.^[4]

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