page_title: Castra
section_title: Plan of forts
hierarchical_section_title: Castra / Plan of forts
caption_attribution_description: English: The Roman castle of Iciniacum near Theilenhofen in Bavaria, Germany. The basics of this map are the measurements of the magnetometer from 2007–2008 and the excavations of Reichs-Limes-Kommission and others in the 19th century (1879–1895). Deutsch: Kastell Theilenhofen (Iciniacum) nach den zwischen 1879 und 1895 erschlossenen Befunden sowie den Magnetometermessungen 2007 und 2008. Siehe dazu die in der Datei direkt angegebenen Quellen. Italiano: Forte ausiliario romano a Theilenhofen (Iciniacum), Germania, Baviera. Română: Castrul Iciniacum (Theilenhofen, Germania, Bavaria) العربية: مخطط عالم تموذجي لقلعة رومانية
context_page_description: In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum was a building, or plot of land, used as a fortified military camp. In English, the terms Roman fort, Roman camp and Roman fortress are commonly used for castrum. However, scholastic convention tends toward the use of the words fort, camp, marching camp and fortress as a translation of castrum.
  Castrum was the term used for different sizes of camps including a large legionary fortress, smaller forts for Cohorts or Auxiliaries, temporary encampments, and "marching" forts. The diminutive form castellum was used for fortlets, typically occupied by a detachment of a cohort or a century.
caption: Plan of a typical Roman fort.
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