following the course of the Sava River. The region is crossed by some of the major European waterways that were integrated within the land road network. The city ofAquileia, located in the AugustanX Regio, had a key role in spreading the Roman culture eastward, and counted among the Empire...
for the favourable monsoon and then sailed from the mouth of the Indus to the mouth of the Euphrates, exploring the northern coast of the Persian Gulf on his way. As Roman power grew, increasing wealth brought increasing demands for Oriental luxuries; this led to great commercial activity in ...
Nabataean, member of a people of ancientArabiawhose settlements lay in the borderlands betweenSyriaand Arabia, from theEuphrates Riverto theRed Sea. Little is known about them before 312bc, when they were unsuccessfully attacked byDemetrius I Poliorcetes, king of Macedonia, in their mountainfortres...
millennium to the early 1st millenniumbceand capital of theNeo-Babylonian(Chaldean) empire in the 7th and 6th centuriesbce, when it was at the height of its splendor. Its extensive ruins, on theEuphrates Riverabout 55 miles (88 km) south ofBaghdad, lie near the modern town ofAl-Ḥillah...