Durovernum Cantiacorum

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Durovernum Cantiacorum was the Roman-era name for the settlement that later became the English city of Canterbury, an important town in the Roman province of Britannia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman town
ancient settlement
archaeological site
associatedEmpire Roman Empire
associatedPeople Cantiaci
connectedBy Roman road to Dubris (Dover)
Roman road to Londinium
Roman road to Portus Lemanis (Lympne)
Roman road to Rutupiae (Richborough)
country Roman Empire
developedFrom earlier military or supply post after the Roman conquest of Britain
followedBy Canterbury, Kent, England
surface form: medieval city of Canterbury
function civic centre for the surrounding civitas of the Cantiaci
hasArchaeologicalEvidence Roman cemeteries
domestic townhouses
hypocaust heating systems
mosaic floors
hasEthnicDesignation Cantiacorum (of the Cantiaci)
hasFeature Roman street grid
bridge over the River Stour
public baths
theatre or amphitheatre nearby
town walls in the later Roman period
hasNameElement "-vernum" possibly related to alder trees or a river name
"Duro-" meaning fort or walled town in Brittonic
hasNameEtymology derived from a pre-Roman Celtic place-name
hasReligion Roman pagan cults
early Christianity in the later Roman period
hasUrbanStatus civitas capital
languageUsed Latin
locatedIn Britannia
Roman Britain
locatedInPresentDay Canterbury
England
Kent
United Kingdom
locatedInRegion southeast Britain
mentionedIn Itinerary II of the Antonine Itinerary
surface form: Antonine Itinerary

Ravenna Cosmography
modernName Canterbury
partOf Britannia (Roman province)
surface form: province of Britannia

territory of the Cantiaci
precededBy Iron Age oppidum or settlement of the Cantiaci
timePeriod 1st century to 4th century CE
transitionedInto Anglo-Saxon settlement that became Cantwaraburg (Canterbury)
traversedBy River Stour
wasImportantAs regional administrative centre in Roman Britain
road junction in the Roman road network in Kent

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Canterbury RomanName Durovernum Cantiacorum
Canterbury Roman Museum locatedInFormer Durovernum Cantiacorum
this entity surface form: Roman town of Durovernum Cantiacorum