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Canterbury

Also known as Durovernum Cantiacorum

Canterbury is a cathedral city in Kent, south-east England. As Durovernum Cantiacorum it was the chief town of the Cantiaci under Rome, and it became the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent, where Augustine founded in 597 the see whose archbishop heads the English Church. The murder of Thomas Becket in its cathedral in 1170 made it a great place of pilgrimage.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Canterbury. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/canterbury
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