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Via Regia (Spain-Ukraine)

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Geographic headingVia Regia (Spain-Ukraine)
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Geographic subdivision usageVia Regia (Spain-Ukraine)
Variant(s)Regia Road (Spain-Ukraine)
See alsoTrade routes--Europe
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Found inWork cat: Via Regia, 2011.
Wikipedia, Aug. 8, 2011 (The best known Via Regia from the Rhine River via Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig to Silesia, with time, came to be called Via Regia itself; the road was first mentioned as strata regia in a document issued by Margrave Henry III of Meissen in 1252, while its origins reach back to the 8th and 9th century. After the downfall of the Imperial power in Central Germany in favour of the Saxon House of Wettin following the 1307 Battle of Lucka, the road lost its royal status; the road had a large economic significance for interregional trade and bartering)