Cantonment

For other uses, see ''Cantonment (disambiguation)''. See also Canton and Cantonist''

A cantonment (pronounced /kænˈtɒnmənt/, [kænˈtoʊnmənt], or UK: [kænˈtuːnmənt]) is a temporary or semi-permanent military quarters. The word cantonment is derived from the French word canton meaning corner or district. In Southern Asia, the term cantonment also describes permanent military stations. Cantonments can be found in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Ghana and Sri Lanka. In United States military parlance, a cantonment is an essentially permanent residential (i.e. barracks) section of a fort or other such military installation. See, for example Fort Hood.

The are often abbreviated "cantt."

Campaigning

During a campaign, cantonments are places of encampment formed by troops for a more permanent stay, or while in winter quarters. For example at the start of the Waterloo campaign in 1815, while the Duke of Wellington's headquarters were in Brussels, most of his Anglo-allied army of 93,000 were cantoned to the south of Brussels.

List of Permanent Cantonments

Bangladesh

Dhaka Cantonment
Chittagong Cantonment
Kadirabad Cantonment
Jahangirabad Cantonment
Ghatail Cantonment
Mirpur Cantonment
Khagrachari Cantonment
Khulna Cantonment
Rajshahi Cantonment
Bogura Cantonment
Jessore Cantonment
Rangamati Cantonment
Savar Cantonment
Sayedpur Cantonment
Mymensing Cantonment
Sylhet Cantonment
Comilla Cantonment
Rangpur Cantonment
Jahanabad Cantonment
Banderban Cantonment
Ruma Garrison

Ghana

Cantonments, Accra

British India

Many cities in the Indian subcontinent, such as Ahmedabad, Belgaum, Bangalore, Ambala, Kanpur, Bathinda, Delhi, Pune, Sialkot and Rawalpindi, contained large cantonments of the former British Indian Army.. While in the 18th and 19th century cantonments in India were viewed as semi-permanent, by the turn of the 20th century they became permanent garrisons, and were further entrenched as such via the military reforms of Lord Kitchener in 1903 and the Cantonments Act of 1924.

India

India currently has 62 cantonments in 17 different states, not including smaller 'sub-cantonments' in the same regional area. Majority of Indian cantonments are spread across Northern, Northwestern and Northeastern India. The British Army too was positioned for threats from across India's northern frontiers, as when the Great Game was in play in the 19th century. The vast majority of modern Indian Army cantonments date from the British era, though all have been modernized, expanded and reconfigured to suit modern warfare, training requirements and inter-service considerations. A few have, over the decades, also been dissolved and/or combined with other cantonments. Now the Cantonment Act of 2006 has come into force.

They include:

Agra Cantonment
Ahmedabad (Gandhinagar) Cantonment
Ahmednagar Cantonment, Maharashtra
Allahabad Cantonment
Almora Cantonment
Ambala Cantonment
Aurangabad cantonment
Hyderabad Cantonment
Badami Bagh Cantonment, Srinagar
Bangalore Cantonment
Bareilly Cantonment
Bathinda Cantonment
Cannanore Cantonment
Chakrata
Chandimandir Cantonment, Panchkula (Chandigarh)
Chennai (Madras) Cantonment
Dehradun Cantonment (Clement Town)
Dehradun, New Cantonment ("New Cantt.")
Delhi Cantonment
Ferozepur Cantonment
Hisar Cantt
Jabalpur Cantonment
Jaipur Cantonment
Jalandhar Cantonment
Jodhpur Cantonment
Kanpur Cantonment
Kapurthala Cantonment
Khadki Cantonment
Kolkata Cantonment
Landour (Mussoorie) Cantonment
Lansdowne, Garhwal
Lucknow Cantonment
Mathura Cantonment
Meerut Cantonment
Mhow
Nagpur (Kamptee) Cantonment
Nagrota Cantonment, Jammu
Nainital Cantonment
Nashik Cantonment
Patna Cantonment
Pune Cantonment
Ranikhet Cantonment
Roorkee Cantonment
Secunderabad Cantonment
Shillong Cantonment
Shimla Cantonment (ARTRAC)
Tiruchirapalli (Trichy) Cantonment
Udhampur Cantonment
Wellington Cantonment

Pakistan

Abbottabad Cantonment
Attock Cantonment
Bannu Cantonment
Bhawalpur Cantonment
Chaklala Cantonment
Clifton Cantonment, Karachi
Dera Ismail Khan Cantonment
Faisal Cantonment, Karachi
Faisalabad Cantonment
Gujranwala Cantonment
Hyderabad Cantonment
Jhelum Cantonment
Kamra Cantonment
Karachi Cantonment
Kharian Cantonment
Khuzdar Cantonment
Korangi Creek Cantonment, Karachi
Lahore Cantonment
Walton Cantonment: Created out of the southern parts of the original Lahore Cantt.
Loralai Cantonment
Malir Cantonment, Karachi
Mangla Cantonment
Manora Cantonment, Karachi
Mardan Cantonment
Multan Cantonment
Murree Cantonment
Nowshera Cantonment
Okara Cantonment
Ormara Cantonment
Pano Aqil Cantonment
Peshawar Cantonment
Quetta Cantonment
Rawalpindi Cantonment
Sanjwal Cantonment
Sargodha Cantonment
Shorkot Cantonment (PAF Rafiqui)
Sialkot Cantonment
Taxila Cantonment
Wah Cantonment
Zhob Cantonment

Bangladesh

Dhaka Cantonment
Mirpur Cantonment
Savar Cantonment
Chittagong Cantonemnt
Khagrachari Cantonemnt
Rangamati Cantonment
Jessore Cantonment
Khulna Cantonment
Rajshahi Cantonment
Bogra Cantonment
Rangpur Cantontment
Sayedpur Cantonment
Ghatail Cantonment
Mymensing Cantonment
Sylhet Cantonment
Mainamati (Comilla) Cantonment
Zamuna satu(Tangail)cantonment

Sri Lanka

Panagoda Cantonment

Translation

The word "Cantonment" occurs as such in the following languages: English, French.

Translation in Italian: Accantonamento.