Look up: Fabrica

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   fabrica
   Latin, meaning: manufacture / craft, trade, art / trick, device
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   Fabrica
   (Latin) manufacture, trick, art, craft; the workshop of a Roman legion located within the legionary camp; skilled artisans and craftmen from the legion, such as engineers, carpenters, masons, wagon-makers, blacksmiths, painters, and other artificers, worked in the fabrica under the command of a praefectus fabrum; these craftsmen were excused from the normal duties and were known as immunes. At archaeological sites were legionary camps were located, many buildings have been identified as fabricae and contain iron-smelting furnaces, large water cisterns and hypocausti.
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   fabrica
   The workshop run by the optio fabricae. A Roman legion held within its ranks a formidable array of artisans, whose skills excused them from normal duties, they were thus termed immunes. Vegetius listed several skills - engineers, carpenters, masons, wagon-makers, blacksmiths, painters and other artificers - all of which would have been employed in ...
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   Fabrica
   Workshop.
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   fabrica
   workshop A Roman legion held within its ranks a formidable array of artisans, whose skills excused them from normal duties, they were thus termed immunes. Vegetius lists several skills - 'engineers, carpenters, masons, wagon-makers, blacksmiths, painters and other artificers' (epitoma rei militaris, II.11) - all of which would have been employed in the fabrica of a legionary camp under the command of a praefectus fabrum, the probable auxiliary equivalent for this post being the optio fabricae. Many buildings containing iron-smelting furnaces, large water cisterns and hypocausti have been identified as fabricae. They have been found in many of the legionary fortresses throughout the Roman empire, but few have been positively identified in auxiliary forts. It is probable that the workshop in an auxiliary fort was used maintenance rather than production, thus the heavier industries such as iron smelting, which would help to identify the site of the auxiliary fabrica would not be present, giving the false impression there were none. Hyginus places the fabrica in the praetentura, as far away from the valetudinarium as possible, so as not to disturb the sick soldiers, however, a large workshop has been identified in the retentura of the legionary fortress at Inchtuthill, where almost one-million iron nails had been buried, and there seem to be no hard rules for placement of the fabrica in practice.
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   Fabrica
   `Fabrica` is a barrio (now called barangay) in the province of Negros Occidental, in the Republic of the Philippines. It was formerly the biggest barrio in the Philippines, and one of the most cosmopolitan area in the Visayas. Fabrica was internationally famous since the early 1900s up to the year 1976, as the site of the largest lumber company and sawmill in the world, the Insular Lumber Company (ILCO), owned by the Americans. ILCO produced har...
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