Cantabrum is the name given by the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Roman people, Romans conquered most of this during the Roman Republic, Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian's assumption of ...

to the banner used by the

Cantabri The Cantabri (, ''Kantabroi'') or Ancient Cantabrians were a pre-Roman 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 territor ...

to facilitate war tactics of the cavalry. After the Cantabrian Wars and the subjugation of the Cantabri by Rome (19 BC), Roman legions adopted ''cantabrum'' as they did with the symbols of the people they conquered as a sign of victory. These standards would henceforth be carried by the so-called ''cantabrarii'' of the

Roman cavalry Roman cavalry (Latin: ''equites Romani'') refers to the horse-mounted forces of the Roman army throughout the regal, republican, and imperial eras. In the regal era, the Roman cavalry was a group of 300 soldiers called ''celeres'', tasked wi ...

. Emperor

Theodosius II Theodosius II ( ; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450), called "the Calligraphy, Calligrapher", was Roman emperor from 402 to 450. He was proclaimed ''Augustus (title), Augustus'' as an infant and ruled as the Eastern Empire's sole emperor after the ...

, 400 years after the Cantabrian Wars, still called its bearer the ''cantabrarius''. There is nowadays a contemporary interpretation of ''cantabrum'' called Cantabrian labarum, recognized by the Parliament of Cantabria as a representative symbol of the identity of the Cantabrian people and the values they hold.Boletín Oficial del Parlamento de Cantabria Página 2128 15 de marzo de 2016 Núm. 85
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{{Cantabrian mythology Military history of Cantabria Cantabrian symbols Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula 10s BC conflicts 19 BC 1st century BC in Hispania

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