Canovium
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Canovium was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located at Caerhun in the Conwy valley, in the county borough of Conwy, in North Wales.
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- Instance of
- castrum
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Caerhun
- Image
- CaerhunRiverConwy9010465.JPG
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- Commons category
- Canovium
- historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
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Canovium was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located at Caerhun in the Conwy valley, in the county borough of Conwy, in North Wales.
== Etymology == The fort appears in the Antonine Itinerary as Conovio and in the Ravenna Cosmography as Canubio. The first element possibly represents a borrowing into Latin of a pre-existing Brythonic name for the wetland area (from a word meaning reeds, cawn in Modern Welsh).
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