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Extract from the Canterbury Travel Guides:
One of England's most venerable cities,
CANTERBURY
offers a rich slice through two thousand years of history, with Roman and early Christian ruins, a Norman castle, and a famous cathedral that dominates a medieval warren of time-skewed Tudor dwellings. The city began as a Belgic settlement that was overrun by the Romans and renamed
Durovernum
, from where they proceeded to establish a garrison, supply base and system of roads that was to reach as far as the Scottish borders. With the Roman Empire's collapse came the Saxons, who renamed the town
Cantwarabyrig
; it was a Saxon king, Ethelbert, who in...
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