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    city planning. The cardo maximus, or most often the cardo, was the main or central north–south-oriented street. The cardo maximus was the "hinge" or axis...
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    Decumanus (redirect from Decumanus maximus)
    called groma – of a city or castrum, the decumanus maximus crossed the perpendicular cardo maximus, the primary north–south road. The forum was normally...
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    usual central north–south road (cardo maximus) and central east–west route (decumanus maximus). However, as the main cardo ran up the western hill, and the...
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    street or cardo and its side streets or decumani The two tetrapyla of Jerash, one at the intersection of northern-decumanus and cardo maximus and the other...
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    street. The Cardo Maximus connected the Roman Forum to a large complex, that was the center of the old Roman city. The Decumanus Maximus ran parallel...
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    cardines (north–south). The principal streets, the decumanus maximus and cardo maximus, intersected at or close to the forum, around which the most important...
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    Roman city was underway. The Roman city was laid out along the main Cardo Maximus street, perpendicular to the Seine. It began at the heights of the Montagne...
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    cardines and east–west decumani. The intersection of the cardo maximus and the decumanus maximus marked the origin of the city grid. Following these standard...
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    Theatre, one turns left into the second important street, the Cardo Maximus. The Cardo leads the visitor to the Tiberia Platea and Central Church with...
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  • such cases, the grid was traced by extending the urban cardo maximus and the decumanus maximus through the gates of the city into the surrounding agricultural...
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