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Cantonment
Cantonment Can"ton*ment, n. [Cf. F. cantonnement.] A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters. Note: When troops are sheltered in huts or quartered in the houses of the people during any suspension of hostilities, they are said to be in cantonment, or to be cantoned. In India, permanent military stations, or military towns, are termed cantonments.

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- Bangladesh cantonments: Alikadam Cantonment, Bandarban Bandarban Cantonment, Bandarban Chittagong Cantonment, Chittagong Comilla Cantonment, Comilla Dhaka...
- Barisal Cantonment is the headquarters of 7th Infantry Division of Bangladesh Army. It is located in Lebukhali, Patuakhali. The area of the cantonment is 1532...
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- Dhaka Cantonment (Bengali: ঢাকা সেনানিবাস) is a cantonment located in the northern part of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The headquarters of the Bangladesh Army and...
- Ambala Cantonment is a cantonment town in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India. It is 200 km north of Delhi and 55 km southwest of Chandigarh...
- Cantonment (ISO: Dillī Chāvanī; po****rly referred to as Delhi Cantt) is a class I Cantonment Board established in 1914. The area of the Cantonment is...
- Bellary Cantonment, was a cantonment area in Madras Presidency in the British Raj. Bellary, today in Karnataka, came under British administration in 1800...
- Cantonment is an unincorporated community in Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is located north of Pensacola, south of Molino, and centered around...
- Look up cantonment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cantonment is a military or police quarters. Cantonment may also refer to: Cantonments, Accra...