Canaba Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Brill's New Pauly, http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/military-camps-e504770
  2. Chester: The Canabae Legionis D. J. P. Mason Britannia Vol. 18 (1987), pp. 143-168, https://www.jstor.org/stable/526442
  3. 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.
  4. Web site: Home . legionaryfortresses.info.
  5. 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_-_