(from the article `Native American art`) Another discovery has brought to light evidence of an early civilization at Ayabaca, in Piura in northwestern Peru, that was probably coeval with the ...
Civilian settlement attached to military base.
A district, suburb or quarter of a town or village adjacent to a Roman fort, with the lowest legal status accorded to a built up area.
A small settlement, town, village, hamlet or a district or quarter of a city. Normally used to refer to the civilian townships which grew up around military bases. 
small civilian settlement, especially one outside a fort