A (plural ) was the Latin term for a hut or hovel and was later (from the time of Hadrian) used typically to mean a town that emerged as a civilian settlement () in the vicinity of a Roman legionary fortress ().THE NIJMEGEN Canabae Legionis (71-102/105 AD), MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LIFE ON THE FRONTIER, PAUL FRANZEN, Limes XX, Int. Congress on Roman Frontier Studies, Leon 2006.
A settlement that grew up outside a smaller Roman fort was called a (village, plural ). were also often divided into .
Permanent forts attracted military dependants and civilian contractors who serviced the base and needed housing; traders, artisans, sellers of food and drink, prostitutes, and also unofficial wives of soldiers and their children and hence most forts had or . Many of these communities became towns through synoecism with other communities, some in use today.
Some Canabae of Legionary Fortresses: Canabae of Deva Victrix, later Chester, England Canabae of Isca Silurium, later Caerleon, Wales Canabae of Novae, Bulgaria Canabae of Vindobona, later Vienna Canabae of Argentoratum, later Strasbourg Canabae of Nijmegen, Netherlands Canabae of Troesmis, RomaniaC.-G. Alexandrescu (Hrsg.), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311901643_The_Troesmis-Project_2011-2015_-_Research_Questions_and_Methodology_in_C-G_Alexandrescu_Hrsg_Troesmis_-_a_changing_landscape_Romans_and_the_Others_in_the_Lower_Danube_Region_in_the_First_Century_BC_-_
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