ancient trade route Via Maris

E258756
ancient trade route historical road

The ancient trade route Via Maris was a major coastal highway linking Egypt with Syria, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia, serving as a crucial corridor for commerce and cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Levant trade routes 1
Via Maris trade route 1
ancient trade route Via Maris canonical 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient trade route ⓘ
historical road ⓘ
alternateName Via Maris ⓘ
surface form: Via Maritima

Way of the Sea ⓘ
associatedWith Assyria ⓘ
surface form: Assyrian Empire

Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form: Babylonian Empire

Canaanite city-states ⓘ
New Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ
surface form: Egyptian New Kingdom

Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ
Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
surface form: Persian Achaemenid Empire

Roman Empire ⓘ
connects Anatolia ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ
Mesopotamia ⓘ
Syria ⓘ
culturalRole channel for cultural diffusion ⓘ
economicRole major corridor for commerce ⓘ
follows Mediterranean Sea coast ⓘ
goodsTraded agricultural products ⓘ
luxury items ⓘ
metals ⓘ
textiles ⓘ
historicalPeriod Bronze Age ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ
influenced development of coastal cities in the Levant ⓘ
locatedIn Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
surface form: eastern Mediterranean region
mentionedIn biblical scholarship ⓘ
modernCountryTerritory Egypt ⓘ
Israel ⓘ
Lebanon ⓘ
Palestine ⓘ
Syria ⓘ
nameMeaning Way of the Sea ⓘ
nameOrigin Latin ⓘ
surface form: Latin language
parallelTo King’s Highway ⓘ
surface form: King's Highway
partOf ancient Near Eastern trade network ⓘ
passesThrough Canaan ⓘ
Damascus Governorate ⓘ
surface form: Damascus region

Galilee ⓘ
Philistia ⓘ
Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form: Phoenicia

Sinai Peninsula ⓘ
strategicImportance key military route in the Levant ⓘ
terminus Mesopotamian trade networks ⓘ
Nile Delta ⓘ
northern Syria ⓘ
usedFor cultural exchange ⓘ
diplomatic travel ⓘ
long-distance trade ⓘ
military movements ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Levant region → traversedBy → ancient trade route Via Maris ⓘ
Megiddo → strategicLocationOn → ancient trade route Via Maris ⓘ
this entity surface form: Via Maris trade route
Tabuk → historicalRegion → ancient trade route Via Maris ⓘ
this entity surface form: Levant trade routes