Canaba

A canaba (plural canabae) was the <a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a> term for a hut or hovel and was later (from the time of <a href="/facts/Hadrian/e1RoggvV">Hadrian</a>) used typically to mean a town that emerged as a civilian settlement (canabae legionis) in the vicinity of a <a href="/facts/Roman_legion/qdmdg3Vb">Roman legionary</a> fortress (<a href="/facts/Castra/FAVdW41t">castrum</a>).

A settlement that grew up outside a smaller Roman fort was called a <a href="/facts/Vicus/LfseCYMS">vicus</a> (village, plural vici). Canabae were also often divided into 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 vici or canabae. Many of these communities became towns through <a href="/facts/Synoecism/QGPcpYdQ">synoecism</a> with other communities, some in use today.

Some Canabae of Legionary Fortresses:

<ul><li>Canabae of <a href="/facts/Deva_Victrix/QoHm1SFp">Deva Victrix</a>, later <a href="/facts/Chester/Ed9BmDyY">Chester</a>, England</li>
<li>Canabae of <a href="/facts/Isca_Augusta/ux5D9lYM">Isca Silurium</a>, later <a href="/facts/Caerleon/Tshk1wI7">Caerleon</a>, <a href="/facts/Wales/xa3W6PHH">Wales</a></li>
<li>Canabae of <a href="/facts/Novae_(fortress)/JRzJqTXP">Novae</a>, Bulgaria</li>
<li>Canabae of <a href="/facts/Vindobona/BTvLfHpt">Vindobona</a>, later <a href="/facts/Vienna/NSpIURsA">Vienna</a></li>
<li>Canabae of <a href="/facts/Argentoratum/4nWF8AeI">Argentoratum</a>, later <a href="/facts/Strasbourg/MTdQtoPy">Strasbourg</a></li>
<li>Canabae of <a href="/facts/Nijmegen/TFpELGNF">Nijmegen</a>, Netherlands</li>
<li>Canabae of <a href="/facts/Troesmis/AbhfmPnk">Troesmis</a>, Romania</li></ul>

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