A Latin: canaba (plural Latin: canabae)[1] was the Latin term for a hut or hovel and was later (from the time of Hadrian)[2] used typically to mean a town that emerged as a civilian settlement (Latin: canabae legionis) in the vicinity of a Roman legionary fortress (Latin: [[castra|castrum]]).[3]
A settlement that grew up outside a smaller Roman fort was called a Latin: [[vicus]] (village, plural Latin: vici). Latin: Canabae were also often divided into Latin: 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 Latin: vici or Latin: canabae. Many of these communities became towns through synoecism with other communities, some in use today.
See main article: List of Roman legions.
Some Canabae of Legionary Fortresses:[4]