Here there seem to be interesting hypotheses about the Illyrians in Spain.
https://diegocatalan.blogia.com/2012...os-ilirios.php
http://hispanosenguerra.blogspot.com...y-ligures.html
http://knowledgeiskeytosuccess.over-...a-4737507.html
Wikipedia Cántabros:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ntabros
We have received some fragments that describe these indomitable peoples, such as the verse of the poet Horacio: «Cantabrum indoctum iuga ferre nostra», which means «The Cantabrian, not taught to take our yoke», or the extract of the Roman geographer Strabo who pick up below:
They have glasses of wax like the Celts
Look like the Celts, those of Thracia and Scitia.
Both the gentilicios used by some tribes or Cantabrian clans - in particular that of the orgenomescos / argentomescios? finally displaced to the more montane interior - as well as the equine cults, they are similar to those of the sármatas and Moesios, Mekhi or Mycenaeans. The latter, also of Indo-European language, came from the regions north of the Danube and migrated to very remote places retaining their original or variant names, according to James P. Mallory. Although the foregoing does not allow to specify with certainty the original origin of these groups, genetic studies carried out in the current population of the region, detect in the male genes a percentage mostly affiliated with the haplogroup R-SRY2627 of Nordic origin, and to a lesser extent Haplogroup E E-M81 (4) from North Africa. The simultaneous presence of these haplotypes of African origin among the male population is considered original, and the great variety of origin of mitochondrial haplogroups, among which those usually found in North Africa stand out, suggest several possible successive influences of Celtic populations near the
Illyrians that could come from the Aegean Sea region,
Macedonia,
Bulgaria,
Albania and ancient Thrace where such genes are found today too.
Alternatively, some of these genetic subgroups of such disparate origins may have subsequently arrived in Cantabria during the Carthaginian or Roman dominance of the Iberian Peninsula, even during the brief Muslim domination over the southern part of the region.
Actually the theme of Illyria, Scythians and Thracians is a theme that in Spain has never been discussed at an informative level in relation to our own history, but genetic evidence is singing.
I do not know why in Spain the topic is hidden at the popular level, being relegated to scholars because at the popular level, of course, I don't think the terms would be familiar.