Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Via Maris" ¶ 0
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Via and Maris
" Mount " Megiddo is a Tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia.
The fortress was built to protect a vulnerable stretch of the Cairo-Damascus highway ( the Via Maris ), and was provided with 100 horsemen and 30 foot soldiers.
The Sea of Galilee lies on the ancient Via Maris, which linked Egypt with the northern empires.
At the head of a large army, consisting mainly of his mercenaries, Necho took the coast route Via Maris into Syria, supported by his Mediterranean fleet along the shore, and proceeded through the low tracts of Philistia and Sharon.
The Via Maris ( purple ), King's Highway ( red ), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE
Jezreel Valley with Via Maris in foreground
" Via Maris " is Latin and means " the Way of the Sea ".
Some consider the name Via Maris a misnomer and instead prefer to call this route the Great Trunk Road.
Together with the King's Highway, the Via Maris was one of the major trade routes connecting Egypt and the Levant with Anatolia and Mesopotamia.
The Via Maris was crossed by other trading routes, so that one could travel from Africa to Europe or from Asia to Africa.
Again turning northward along the shore, the Via Maris passed through Migdal, Capernaum, and Hazor.
ca: Via Maris
cv: Via Maris
de: Via Maris
fr: Via Maris
it: Via Maris
jv: Via Maris
la: Via Maris
ru: Via Maris
fi: Via Maris
sv: Via Maris
tr: Via Maris
uk: Via Maris
This commerce was systemized with the construction of the Via Maris, a coastal road that ran south from Antioch to Damascus and Beirut via Laodicea.

Via and is
As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.
A few yards farther, on the Via Dei Bergamaschi, is the Piazza Colonna.
The life-size so-called " Adonis " found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars.
The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.
However, a more recent source says that of the martyr Felix nothing is known except his name, that he was a martyr, and that he was buried in the cemetery on the Via Portuensis that bears his name.
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.
Indeed, it is a major cultural and economic centre in southwestern Europe ( Iberian Peninsula ), 26th in the world ( after Moscow, before Dubai ) and a growing financial centre ( Diagonal Mar and Gran Via ).
There were a number of monasteries in and around the town, including a Benedectine monastery after which the Barfussgässchen ( Barefoot Alley ) is named and a monastery of Irish monks near the present day Ranstädter Steinweg ( old Via Regia ).
Leipzig is also situated at the intersection of the ancient roads known as the Via Regia ( King's highway ), which traversed Germanic lands in an east-west direction, and Via Imperii ( Imperial Highway ), a north-south road.
He also built the facade for the family palace in the Via della Vigna Nuova, known as the Palazzo Rucellai, though it is not exactly clear what his role as designer was.
She is believed to have commissioned the renowned Ponte della Maddalena where the Via Francigena crosses the river Serchio at Borgo a Mozzano just north of Lucca.
* the Via Tecta ( or the Sacred Way, which is a colonnaded street leading to the sanctuary ) and
Since nothing is known of the Saints Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus of 3 May other than their names and the facts that they were martyred and were buried at the seventh milestone of the Via Nomentana on that day, the one whose name coincided with that of a pope was identified with the Pope.
The latter detail is evidently an error, for the fourth century Roman calendar of feasts says that Pope Felix was interred in the Catacomb of Callixtus on the Via Appia.
Thus, the Via Gabina ( during the time of Porsena ) is mentioned in about 500 BC ; the Via Latina ( during the time of Coriolanus ) in about 490 BC ; the Via Nomentana, or Via Ficulensis, in 449 BC ; the Via Labicana in 421 BC ; and the Via Salaria in 361 BC.

Via and modern
Aeclanum ( also spelled Aeculanum ) was an ancient town of Samnium, southern Italy, c. 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia ( near the modern Mirabella Eclano ).
Two different routes to Apulia diverged at this point, one ( Via Aurelia Aeclanensis ) leading through the modern Ariano to Herdoniae, the other ( the Via Appia of the Empire ) passing the Lacus Ampsanctus and going on to Aquilonia and Venusia ; while the road from Aeclanum to Abellinum ( mod.
The western part of the Via Egnatia ran inside modern Albania, ending at Dyrrachium.
* Kerschbaum & Gattinger, Via Francigena-DVD-Documentation, of a modern pilgrimage to Rome, ISBN 3-200-00500-9, Verlag EUROVIA, Vienna 2005
The parade then proceeded along the Via Triumphalis ( the modern Via dei Fori Imperiali ) to the Circus Flaminius then the Circus Maximus.
In 131 BC, the Via Annia joined Adria to Patavium ( modern Padua ) to Altinum to Concordia to Aquileia.
The Via Claudia was completed in 46 BC and connected Altinum, Tarvisium ( modern Treviso ), Feltria ( modern Feltre ), and Tridentum ( modern Trent ).
It is by some fixed some 5 km southeast of the modern village of Cisterna di Latina just before the Via Appia enters the Pontine Marshes, at a point where the modern road to Ninfa and Norba diverges to the northeast, where a few ruins still exist ( Grotte di Nottola ), 53 km from Rome.
Benevento, as Maleventum, one of the chief cities of Samnium, and at a later period one of the most important cities of southern Italy, was situated on the Via Appia at a distance of east from Capua ; and on the banks of the river Calor ( modern Calore ).
For this prosperity it was doubtless indebted in part to its position on the Via Appia, just at the junction of the two principal arms or branches of that great road, the one called afterwards the Via Trajana, leading from thence by Equus Tuticus into Apulia ; the other by Aeclanum to Venusia ( modern Venosa ) and Tarentum ( modern Taranto ).
The Forum Museum ( Antiquarium Forense ) is found at the Colosseum end of a modern road, the Via dei Fori Imperiali.
After the conquest of Taranto in 272, the Roman rule was extended to the whole region: the Via Appia reached Brindisi and the colonies of Potentia ( modern Potenza ) and Grumentum were founded.
One was a Roman priest, another the bishop of Interamna ( modern Terni ) both buried along the Via Flaminia outside Rome, at different distances from the city.
The Romans continued the expansion of Singidunum ( modern capital Belgrade ), Sirmium ( Sremska Mitrovica ) and Naissus ( Niš ), among other centres, and a few notable remnants of monuments survive, such as Via Militaris, Trajan's Bridge, Diana, Felix Romuliana ( UNESCO ), etc.

0.312 seconds.