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| Cantiaci | |
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| Geography | |
| Capital | Durovernum Cantiacorum (Canterbury) |
| Location | Kent East Sussex |
| Rulers | Dubnovellaunus, Vosenius, Eppillus, Cunobelinus, Adminius |
The Cantiaci or Cantii were an Iron Age Celtic people living in Britain before the Roman conquest, and gave their name to a civitas of Roman Britain. They lived in the area now called Kent, in south-eastern England. Their capital was Durovernum Cantiacorum, now Canterbury.
They were bordered by the Regni to the west, and the Catuvellauni to the north.[citation needed]
Julius Caesar landed in Cantium in 55 and 54 BCE, the first Roman expeditions to Britain. He recounts in his De Bello Gallico v. 14:[1]
Ex his omnibus longe sunt humanissimi qui Cantium incolunt, quae regio est maritima omnis, neque multum a Gallica differunt consuetudine.
Of all these [British tribes], by far the most civilised are they who dwell in Kent, which is entirely a maritime region, and who differ but little from the Gauls in their customs.
- ^ Caesar, Gaius Julius. C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, chapter 14 (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Brothers.