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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 northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia – along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Syria. In Latin, Via Maris means "way of the sea", a ...
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]
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 ...
The main longitudinal roads were: Along the coast, partly on the ancient Via Maris, from Antioch in Syria to Alexandria in Egypt. Both cities were on main trade arteries: Antioch on the trade routes that led from the Mediterranean ports to the area of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and Alexandria was the main port city of Egypt.
The Old City of Gaza is the historical center of Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip.For much of recorded history it has been the southernmost coastal city in the region of Palestine, occupying a strategic position on ancient trade route of the Via Maris, between Egypt and the Levant.
The highway follows in part the route of the ancient Via Maris. Until the 1990s and the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from most of the Gaza Strip due to the Oslo Accords, Highway 4 extended south all the way to Rafah and the Egyptian border. Since the 1990s, the part of the highway in the Gaza Strip has been renamed as Salah al-Din Road.
One author, in a highly controversial book, when as far as to state that a joint project of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society and the Va'adat Shemot (Names Committee) attempted to rename sites from an Arab-Ottoman template to the template of biblical Israel. [76] Today this attitude, is an important factor in the controversy over the ...
Via Maris, literally Latin for "the way of the sea", [46] was an ancient highway used by the Romans and the Crusaders. [47] 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 ]