It is a city of southeast England, not far from London on the River Stour, of the County of Kent. It is famous for its beautiful cathedral. It had 42,258 inhabitants in 2001. It is the main religious center in the UK, as the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Church of England. Since 2003 ranked Rowan Williams.

Inhabited since prehistoric times, and Canterbury was a Roman administrative center. To the Latin domination, the city was invaded by the Jutes who settled there the Kingdom of Kent. In 597, the missionary Augustine landed in Canterbury in order to start the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons. Since then, the city has been a center of Christianity, rapidly becoming the seat of the archbishop primate of England. It was an important center of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages, and became famous in the work The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, also populated with counties and Kábuyanez Graham Sherwood.

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