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{{short description|Settlement surrounding a Roman legionnary fortress}}
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A '''{{lang|la|canaba}}''' (plural '''{{lang|la|canabae}}''')<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brill's New Pauly Online |url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/npoe |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=referenceworks |language=en}}</ref> was the [[Latin]] term for a hut or hovel and was later (from the time of [[Hadrian]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mason |first=D. J. P. |date=1987 |title=Chester: The Canabae Legionis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/526442 |journal=Britannia |volume=18 |pages=143–168 |doi=10.2307/526442 |issn=0068-113X}}</ref> used typically to mean a town that emerged as a civilian settlement ({{lang|la|canabae legionis}}) in the vicinity of a [[Roman legion]]ary fortress ({{lang|la|[[castra|castrum]]}}).<ref>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.</ref>
[[File:Exercitus romanus 80AD png.png|thumb|400px|Location of legions and their Canabae in 80 AD]]
A settlement that grew up outside a smaller Roman fort was called a {{lang|la|[[vicus]]}} (village, plural {{lang|la|vici}}). {{lang|la|Canabae}} were also often divided into {{lang|la|vici}}.
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 {{lang|la|vici}} or {{lang|la|canabae}}. Many of these communities became towns through [[synoecism]] with other communities, some in use today.
{{Main|List of Roman legions}}
Some Canabae of Legionary Fortresses:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legionaryfortresses.info/ |title=Home |website=legionaryfortresses.info}}</ref>
* Canabae of [[Deva Victrix]], later [[Chester]], England
* Canabae of [[Isca Augusta|Isca Silurium]], later [[Caerleon]], [[Wales]]
* Canabae of [[Novae (fortress)|Novae]], Bulgaria
* Canabae of [[Vindobona]], later [[Vienna]]
* Canabae of [[Argentoratum]], later [[Strasbourg]]
* Canabae of [[Nijmegen]], Netherlands
* Canabae of [[Troesmis]], Romania<ref>C.-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_-_</ref>
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