Dover England

The English Channel is controlled by Dover in England and thus called "The Lock & Key of England."

First Julius Caesar landed at Dover, in 55 BC to conquer England and later many others like the Vikings and William the Conqueror invaded England as by Dover.

His history as a military garrison town and can be seen by its massive extensive remains of Roman forts, the 19th century forts and defenses of the two world wars it was the city of Great Britain before the defense line.

Dover today depends heavily on its port for survival, and the terminal is busiest passenger ferry in the world, the terminal's busiest cruise ship in Britain and its freight, particularly fruit and perishables Come & Go through massive reefers.

Only a few Stone Age axes have been found in Dover because of its side of the sea changes and stirred.

The earliest known inhabitants of the valley of the River Dour Dover were the late Stone Age Farmers who came here by boats with corn seeds and animals about 6000 years ago.

Britain first ever found shipwreck (1100 BC) took place at Dover in the Bronze Age as bronze tools and weapons of 350 scrap have been found on its banks.

Over 45 Bronze Age cemeteries have also been found on site and in 1992 they were repairing a road in downtown, a large wooden boat from the Bronze Age was discovered in a deep hole gorged water.

During the Roman period, this British port which was closest to the rest of the Roman Empire, which Dover thriving commercial city and it occupied about 5 hectares along the Dour valley and they called this city after Dubris Dubras, meaning the name of British waters. "

The Roman colony was a massive door, flanked by two lighthouses and three forts.

There are 60 locations in the Roman period still found in Dover, and some of them are like the Roman Painted House at Dover, the Roman Pharos lighthouse or in the grounds of Dover Castle and further a-field Richborough Roman Fort near Sandwich. Its museum has a large collection of Roman Samian.

After the 5th century, when the Romans abandoned Britain, Germanic tribes crossed the North Sea to settle in Kent, which was then called Dofra. He became an important settlement for the Vikings in Kent.

Many Saxon discoveries have been made in the Dover area, as the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Buckland, which was found in 1951, while building a new house estate there. 170 graves were also found on this site, many containing weapons, jewelry and household objects such as combs and pottery.

244 more graves were found near the point of Buckland in 1994, making it the largest Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Britain. Many timber buildings of the Saxon era were found in the center of Dover and a church (St Mary de Castro) in the castle walls. The city was prosperous and well organized by the middle of the 10th century with its own currency and its cross channel trade links.

In the year 1050 the five ports of Dover, Sandwich, Hastings, and Hythe Rommey together to provide ships and men to King Edward the Confessor and were called the Cinque (meaning five in French) Ports. So, by providing all these things to the king, they were given many rights and privileges.

The Battle of Hastings marked the end of the Saxon era October 14, 1066. Duke William of Normandy defeated and killed King Harold and it was a victory for the Norman knights over English foot harness.

After his victory at Hastings in 1066, William Duke (now better known as William the Conqueror) and his army moved to Dover, pausing only to burn Rommey as he came, who yesterday and TODAY 'Today was the shortest passage to France. After graduating he went to Dover to take complete control of Canterbury, then.