Excerpted from Iberia Rising: The Ancient Cantabri Kingdom
Poverty is the engine that drives men to the pursuit of wealth and greatness.
Insignificance is the force that propels nations to find relevancy and glory.
So it was with the small tribe known as the Cantabri, a Celt-Iberian tribe in the very north of the peninsula.
The Cantabri tribe's possessions in 474, highlighted in blue
And the man who first dreamt of power for his tribe was the most unlikely of would-be heroes...