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with whom they were close – the invasion of Britain may have been triggered by the Britons' supply of arms to the Gauls, who were being subjugated by the Romans.
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Of all these , by far the most civilised are they who dwell in Kent, which is entirely a maritime region, and who differ but little from the
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Ex his omnibus longe sunt humanissimi qui Cantium incolunt, quae regio est maritima omnis, neque multum a Gallica differunt consuetudine.
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Julius Caesar named five Celtic tribes inhabiting the land that would become the "heartland of the
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Anarevitos, known only from a coin discovered in 2010, probably a descendant of
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tells us he was exiled by Cunobelinus c. 40 CE, leading to
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In the century between Caesar's expeditions and the conquest under
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were an Iron Age Celtic people living in Britain before the
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was captured, and Cassivellaunus was forced to seek terms.
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Tribes involved in Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain
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Territory of the Cantiaci
Durovernum Cantiacorum
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Kent
East Sussex
Dubnovellaunus
Vosenius
Eppillus
Cunobelinus
Adminius
Roman conquest
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Roman Britain
Kent
Durovernum Cantiacorum
Canterbury
Regni
Catuvellauni
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