As one of the waterways and ancient highways, for centuries the road led from Europe to Asia and back, and from northern Africa to the Baltic Sea.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

The northern and central areas are connected through a major road system ; some areas, however, remain relatively isolated.

The bridge was officially opened on September 14, 2009, enabling economic interests in northern Brazil to link by road to the port at Georgetown.

A road bridge connects its northern end to the mainland of England.

On the northern side a wide road, the Dromos, ran through the double-arched Dipylon Gate ( also known as the Thriasian Gate ) and on to the Platonic Academy a few miles away.

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.

This short tunnel exits on the northern side of Lawson Street road bridge.

The first such project, the Anzob Tunnel, was inaugurated in 2006, providing a year-round road link from Dushanbe to northern Tajikistan.

The Soviets built a road and tunnel through the Salang pass in 1964, connecting northern and southern Afghanistan.

Being the cradle of Vietnamese civilization, northern Vietnam produces many signature dishes of Vietnam, such as phở, bún riêu, and bánh cuốn, which were carried to central and southern Vietnam through the road of Vietnamese migration.

Beyond the road / rail land entrances at the northern edge of the city, transportation within the city remains ( as it was in centuries past ) entirely on water or on foot.

Its farming activity and its location on the road from Paris to Dreux and Normandy brought prosperity to the village, culminating in the end of the 13th century, the so-called " century of Saint Louis ", famous for the prosperity of northern France and the building of Gothic cathedrals.

* 5 August: A young Israeli couple were killed when gunmen opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Eli in the northern West Bank.

The main road between Helsinki and Turku had passed through the northern parts of Kauniainen for centuries, but the new railway between the same cities that opened in 1903 was crucial for the development of the area.

The east-to-west Helsinki – Turku motorway ( national road 1 ) passes Kauniainen to the south and the old Helsinki – Turku main road passes the northern parts of the town.

The northern one carries rail traffic and the southern one carries road traffic.

It has been successfully argued that the ancient runner took the more difficult northern road because at the time of the battle there were still Persian soldiers in the south of the plain.

In Ohio, the road continued along modern U. S. 40 and passed through the northern suburbs of Dayton, Springfield, and the city of Columbus.

On 7 July 1948, a Silver City Bristol Freighter operated the first cross-Channel air ferry service, between Lympne near Folkestone in Kent and Le Touquet on France's northern Côte d ' Opale coast, with good road connections from and to London and Paris respectively.

Camp Street received its name because it was the road which led to the camp or garrison at the northern end of the city.

The road will include more than 10 tunnels and halve the travel time between the southern coast and the northern border with Saudi Arabia.

On the morning of 3 July, the northern part of the front bisected by the Albert-Bapaume road had been a problem for the British, as only a part of La Boisselle had been taken.

By 0. 3 Mya, Canis lupus ( the gray wolf ) was fully developed and had spread throughout Europe and northern Asia ; and Beringia offered a way to North America.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

The Inuit language branch became distinct and in only several hundred years spread across northern Alaska, Canada and into Greenland.

The figure of Columba looms large in any history of Dál Riata and his founding of a monastery on Iona ensured that the kingdom would be of great importance in the spread of Christianity in northern Britain.

The spread of advanced human hunters through northern Eurasia and the Americas around the time of the extinctions was a new development, and thus might have contributed significantly.

For the same reason, flows of air down toward the northern surface of the Earth tend to spread across the surface in a clockwise pattern.

The warm zone spread in the northern hemisphere, where extensive dry desert appeared.

Their numbers spread to Spain and northern Italy.

Renewable power generators are spread across many countries, and wind power alone already provides a significant share of electricity in some areas: for example, 14 % in the U. S. state of Iowa, 40 % in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, and 20 % in Denmark.

Although the population of northern Norway is sparse compared to southern Europe, the spread of the disease was just as rapid.

And the language that was spoken in them, Swahili ( now Tanzania's national language ), is a member of the Bantu language family that spread from the northern Kenya coast well before significant Arab presence was felt in the region.

Widely spread in the second half of the 20th century, beur generally refers to first-generation immigrants from northern Africa in France.

They rapidly spread to the other continents, even for a time occupying much of northern Africa, where they are now almost wholly absent.

From the eleventh century, by which time the rulers of the Sudanic empires had embraced Islam, it spread south into the northern areas of contemporary Côte d ' Ivoire.

Columba's founding Iona within the bounds of Dál Riata ensured that the kingdom would be of great importance in the spread of Christianity in northern Britain, not only to Pictland, but also to Northumbria, via Lindisfarne, to Mercia, and beyond.

One group of tribes settled along the Dnieper river in what is now Ukraine, and Beylorussia to the North ; they then spread northward to the northern Volga valley, east of modern-day Moscow and westward to the basins of the northern Dniester and the Southern Buh rivers in present-day Ukraine and southern Ukraine.

) The leporids first appeared in the late Eocene and rapidly spread throughout the northern hemisphere ; they show a trend towards increasingly long hind limbs as the modern leaping gait developed.

It is especially associated with developments in Naples in the first half of the 18th century, whence its popularity spread to Rome and northern Italy.

Through the rule of the Angevin dynasty, the style was introduced to England and spread throughout France, the Low Countries, Germany, Spain, northern Italy and Sicily.

Thought to have originated in northern China, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America — making it the most successful mammal on the planet after humans.

Likely originating from the plains of Asia, northern China and Mongolia, the brown rat spread to other parts of the world sometime in the Middle Ages.

but the broken and reconnected plait work that is characteristic of true knotwork began in northern Italy and southern Gaul and spread to Ireland by the 7th century.

Agriculture is a very important part of their culture, and their villages are spread out across the northern part of Arizona.