The

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Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It is bordered on the east ...

is the basic institutional norm of the

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of Cantabria in

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. It determines the fields, bodies and institutions of self-government of the Cantabrian community. Legally it is the

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8/1981 of 30 December 1981, passed on 15 December the same year in the

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and published on the

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on 11 January 1982. Later it has been modified to extend responsibilities and to define provisional articles.

External links

Statute of Autonomy of Cantabria
the basic institutional instrument regulating Cantabria.

Bibliography

*''Guía oficial del Parlamento de Cantabria. VI Legislatura''. Santander 2004. Parlamento de Cantabria. 1981 in Cantabria Government of Cantabria

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