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Tanatis

Tanatis according to Solinus (100.12), an island in the neighbourhood of Britain. It is undoubtedly the same which Beda (Hist. Eccl. 1.25) calls Tanatos, and which still bears the name of Thanet.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.