Ancient roads

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Ancient roads are paths that connected important cities and areas together.

In Europe, with the exception of the Roman roads, the paths were unfixed and depended on the topology and geography of the land. In the early Middle Ages, valleys were often filled with thick lowland forests and unpassable rivers. Therefore, people preferred to travel at higher elevations along the European watersheds.

Contents 1 Well-known historical routes in Europe 1.1 Frankish empire 1.2 Germans and Celts 1.3 Denmark and Germany 1.4 Saxony (Upper Saxory, the Electorate of Saxony) 1.5 Greece

[edit] Well-known historical routes in Europe

[edit] Frankish empire

• Antsanvia (trade road from Mainz into Thüringen)
• Birkenhainer Landstraße (Wine road)
• Bergische Eisenstraße
• Deitweg
• Elisabethenstraße (from Mainz-Kastel through the Oppidum Nida until Hofheim am Taunus, see also Bundesautobahn 66)
• Eselsweg
• Jakobsweg
• Old Salt Route or Alte Salzstraße
• Rennsteig
• Schwabenweg
• Via Regia (King's road from Frankfurt am Main through Leipzig to Görlitz)
• Via Tolosana (last Pilgrim route on the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela)

[edit] Germans and Celts

• Bernsteinstraße
• Hellweg
• Ortesweg (Path from Marburg to Bamberg)

[edit] Denmark and Germany

• Hærvejen (the Army Road, German: Ochsenweg)

[edit] Saxony (Upper Saxory, the Electorate of Saxony)

• Alte Dresden-Teplitzer Poststraße
• Alte Freiberg-Teplitzer Poststraße
• Frankenstraße
• Hohe Straße
• Kulmer Steig
• Salzstraßen to Hallstadt in Salzkammergut and toward the Halle an der Saale and Reichenhall

[edit] Greece

• Via Pythia