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Dubris
Dover
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Dubris was the Roman harbour at Dover, on the south-eastern tip of Britain in the land of the Cantiaci. It was probably known since the Greek explorer Pytheas, and better known after Julius Caesar's landing. A Roman register of routes calls it simply the harbour of Dubris, the starting point of an ancient road to London and of the crossing to Boulogne, about four hundred and fifty stadia over the Channel. The map sets the town on a small spur jutting into the sea, a detail that probably means nothing. In the late Roman period a unit of Tungrian soldiers was stationed here under its commander.