{{short description|Settlement surrounding a Roman legionnary fortress}} {{italic title}}
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|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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}}).<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>
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.
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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 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, 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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