Decumanus
Sign in to savethumb|The Straight Street or Via Recta, the main street in the [[Old city of Damascus, was the city's decumanus, built by the Romans. (Pictured 2017)]] In Roman urban planning, a decumanus was an east–west-oriented road in a Roman city or castrum (military camp). The main decumanus of a particular city was the decumanus maximus, or most often simply "the decumanus". In the rectangular street grid of the typical Roman city plan, the decumanus was crossed by the perpendicular cardo, a north–south street.
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- Etymology
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- Barcino, Barcelona
- Split, Croatia
- Gadara, Jordan
- Damascus, Syria
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Florence, Italy
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thumb|The Straight Street or Via Recta, the main street in the [[Old city of Damascus, was the city's decumanus, built by the Romans. (Pictured 2017)]] In Roman urban planning, a decumanus was an east–west-oriented road in a Roman city or castrum (military camp). The main decumanus of a particular city was the decumanus maximus, or most often simply "the decumanus". In the rectangular street grid of the typical Roman city plan, the decumanus was crossed by the perpendicular cardo, a north–south street.
In a military camp, the decumanus connected the Porta Praetoria (closest to the enemy) to the Porta Decumana (away from the enemy).