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  2. Via Maris - Wikipedia

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    The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE Jezreel Valley with modern road following the route of Via Maris in foreground. Via Maris, or Way of Horus (Middle Egyptian: ḫꜣt Ḥr, lit. 'Khet Her') was an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the ...

  3. King's Highway (ancient) - Wikipedia

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    The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. The King's Highway was a trade route of vital importance in the ancient Near East, connecting Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrates ...

  4. Way of the Patriarchs - Wikipedia

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    Way of the Patriarchs (blue) with Via Maris (purple) and King's Highway (red) The Road of the Patriarchs or Way of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ הֲאָבוֹת Derech haʾAvot Lit. Way (of) the Fathers) is an ancient north–south route traversing the land of Israel and the region of Palestine. [1]

  5. Trade route - Wikipedia

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    The states controlling the Via Maris were in a position to grant access for trade to their own citizens and collect tolls from the outsiders to maintain the trade route. [48] The name Via Maris is a Latin translation of a Hebrew phrase related to Isaiah . [ 47 ]

  6. Category:Trade routes - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Trade routes" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. ... Via Maris; Vogelfluglinie; Volga trade route; Voyages: The Trans ...

  7. Via Traiana Nova - Wikipedia

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    The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. The Via Traiana Nova or Via Nova Traiana (Latin for 'Trajan's New Road'), previously known as the Via Regia or King's Highway, was an ancient Roman road built by Emperor Trajan in the province of Arabia Petraea, from Aqaba on the Red Sea to Bostra.

  8. Chicago Portage - Wikipedia

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    This trade network is now called the Hopewell Interaction Sphere, and the part that encompassed Illinois, the Havana Hopewell, played a major part. Since at this time most long-distance travel for trade purposes was via water, it is likely that during this Woodland period the Chicago Portage was first regularly used.

  9. Illinois Country - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois [pɛ.i dez‿i.ji.nwa]; lit. ' land of the Illinois people '; Spanish: País de los ilinueses), also referred to as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana), was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s that later fell under Spanish and British control before becoming what is now part of the ...