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castrum
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thumb|260px|Templeborough Roman fort in [[South Yorkshire visualised 3D flythrough, produced for Rotherham Museums and Archives]]
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Linguistic development
- Description
- Sources and origins
- Construction and layout
- Wall and ditch
- Intervallum
- Streets, gates and central plaza
- Major buildings
- Barracks
- Sanitation
- Surroundings
- Modifications in practice
- Camp life
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|260px|Templeborough Roman fort in [[South Yorkshire visualised 3D flythrough, produced for Rotherham Museums and Archives]]
Castra () is a Latin term used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire for a military 'camp', and castrum () for a 'fort'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “castrum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.