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Canterbury (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 16 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.2667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 05 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 1.0833 decimal degrees |
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Note: Country's principal religious center, immortalized in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; badly damaged by Danes in 1011 and bombed during World War II; Protestants executed here under Mary I in the 1550s; weaving center in the 17th century; site of ruins of Roman walls and theater; cathedral begun in 1070; city has Norman walls also. |
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| Canterbury (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Cantorbéry (C,O)
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| Cantiacorum (H,O)
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| Cantiensis (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Cantuaria (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Cantwaraburn (H,O)
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| Cantwarabyrig (H,O)
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| Durovernum (H,O)
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| Durovernum Cantiacorum (H,O,Latin-P,U,N)
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............ | name of the ancient Roman town, founded ca. 43 CE |
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Kent (county) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled since pre-Roman times (ca. 200 BCE) |
| city (C) |
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established as a Roman town ca. 43 |
| archiepiscopal see (C) |
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founded by St. Augustine of Canterbury in 597 |
| market center (C) |
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| religious center (C) |
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| tourist center (C) |
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| ancient site (C) |
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| capital (H) |
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of Aethelbert, King of Kent, founded ca. 560 |
| pilgrimage center (H) |
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during Middle Ages, as result of the murder of Thomas Beckett on December 29, 1070, until cult was supressed in the 16th century |
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