Canovium was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. The River Conwy ( Welsh: Afon Conwy) is a River in north Wales. The Latin word castra, with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean buildings or plots of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin provincia, pl provinciae) was the basic and until the Tetrarchy (circa Britannia was the term originally used by the Romans to refer first to the British Isles, and later to the island of Great Britain. Its site is located at Caerhun in the Conwy valley, in the county borough of Conwy, in North Wales. Caerhun is a Village and rural community (and former Civil parish) on the west bank of the River Conwy, to the south of Henryd and The River Conwy ( Welsh: Afon Conwy) is a River in north Wales. County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland) to refer to a Borough or a City Geography It contains the major settlements of Llandudno, Llandudno Junction, Llanrwst, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, Colwyn Bay North Wales (Gogledd Cymru is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England.
Canovium was a square fort built in timber at an important river crossing (at Tal-y-Cafn) by the Roman army around AD 75, possibly to house a 500-strong regiment of foot-soldiers. Tal-y-Cafn ( Welsh meaning: "place opposite the ferry-boat") is a small settlement in Conwy county borough, north Wales The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial Year 75 was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar. Rebuilding in stone began in the early 2nd century. The 2nd century is the period from 101 to 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. It contained the usual headquarters building, commanding officer's house, granaries and barrack blocks, but the two former buildings were unusually large for the size of the fort. There was a bath-house to the east and an extensive vicus to the north. In the history of the Roman empire, a vicus (pl vici was an ad hoc provincial civilian settlement that sprang up close to and because of a nearby official Roman There may have been a brief abandonment of the site in the very late 2nd century, but occupation quickly resumed, with the erection of a new cookhouse, and continued until at least the late 4th century. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 4th century (per the Julian calendar and Anno Domini / Common era) was that Century The north-east quarter of the site is now occupied by the 14th-century parish church of St Mary and its churchyard. A parish church, in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a Parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches
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