canaba

{{short description|Settlement surrounding a Roman legionnary fortress}}

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A {{lang|la|canaba}} (plural {{lang|la|canabae}}){{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}} was the Latin term for a hut or hovel and was later (from the time of Hadrian){{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|url-access=subscription }} used typically to mean a town that emerged as a civilian settlement ({{lang|la|canabae legionis}}) in the vicinity of a Roman legionary fortress ({{lang|la|castrum}}).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.

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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.

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Some Canabae of Legionary Fortresses:{{cite web |url=http://www.legionaryfortresses.info/ |title=Home |website=legionaryfortresses.info}}

• 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_-_