For the crustacean genus Cardus, see Polychelidae. Genera and Species Cardus Galil, 2000 (Thomson, 1873) Homeryon Galil, 2000 Galil, 2000 (Rathbun, 1906) Pentacheles Bate, 1878 Alcock, 1894 Bate, 1878 Bate, 1878 (Rathbun, 1906) A. Milne Edwards, 1880 Polycheles Heller, 1862 Galil, 2000 (Bate, 1878) Bate, 1878 Alcock, 1878 Galil, 2000 (Bate, 1878) Galil, 2000 Ahyong and Brown...

In Roman city planning, a cardo or cardus was a north-south-oriented street in ancient Roman cities, military camps, and colonia. The main street of the city was most often the cardo and was sometimes called the cardus maximus. The cardo served as the center of economic life. The street was lined with shops, merchants, and vendors. The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... A colonia was a Roman outpost, usually established by veterans of a Roman Legion, who received land as a part of their retirement from the Legions. ...

Most Roman cities also had a Decumanus Maximus, an east-west street that served as a secondary main street. Due to varying geography, in some cities the decumanus is the main street and the cardo is secondary, but in general the cardus maximus served as the primary road. The Forum was normally located at the intersection of the Decumanus and the Cardo. Palmyra in Syria In Roman city planning, a Decumanus Maximus was an east-west-oriented road in a Roman city, military camp, or colonia. ... The Forum of Cosa, in Italy. ...

The cardo was the "hinge" or axis of the city, derived from the same root as cardinal. The term 'cardus' is derived from the north-south line the augurs would draw when making the auspices. ... The Augur was a priest or official in ancient Rome. ... Categories: Ancient Rome | Classical oracles | Historical stubs ...

Cardo of Jerusalem

The Cardo in the Old City of Jerusalem is one good example. After the Jewish rebellion of 70 AD was crushed by Titus' troops, Jerusalem was refounded as Colonia Aelia Capitolina and its new city plan featured a long collonated cardo running from north to south, date from the time of Emperor Justinian in the 6th century AD. The cardo is still a street in modern Jerusalem. Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: (help· info) Yerushalayim; Arabic: (help· info) al-Quds), Greek Ιεροσόλυμα, is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meter. ... Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s - 70s - 80s 90s 100s 110s 120s Years: 65 66 67 68 69 - 70 - 71 72 73 74 75 Events The building of the Colosseum starts (approximate date). ... This article is about the emperor of ancient Rome. ... Aelia Capitolina was a city built by the emperor Hadrian in the year 131, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of Syrian dominions. ... Roman pillar In architecture and structural engineering, a column is that part of a structure whose purpose is to transmit through compression the weight of the structure. ... Justinian I, depicted on a contemporary coin Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus or Justinian I (May 11, 483–November 13/14, 565), was Eastern Roman Emperor from AD August 1, 527 until his death. ... (5th century — 6th century — 7th century — other centuries) Events The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Persia by the Persian Shah Khosrau I. Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland) Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. ...

In 1971 a submission by architects Peter Bogod, Esther Krendel and Shlomo Aronson was approved by the Company for Reconstruction in the Old City. Their proposal relied heavily on the sixth century Madaba map, a mosaic map of Jerusalem found in 1897 in Madaba, Jordan. The Madaba Map clearly showed the Roman Cardo (literally, a “heart”) as the main artery through the Old City. Bogod, Krendel, and Aronson wanted to construct a commercially viable covered street, “in the physical continuation, style, proportions and atmosphere of the Arab bazaar, but in today’s materials.” Their plan anticipated that architects would be successful in finding the southern remains of the Cardo, an extension of the main North-South Roman thoroughfare built during the Byzantine era (324 – 638 CE). It was hoped that after the Cardo was discovered that it could be incorporated into the shopping gallery and also be connected to the north to the Arab bazaars running perpendicular to it. Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: (help· info) Yerushalayim; Arabic: (help· info) al-Quds), Greek Ιεροσόλυμα, is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meter. ...

Time was of the essence and mounting pressure to repopulate the Jewish Quarter led to the construction of a superstructure which allowed the residential buildings to be built while the archaeologists continued to work below. The project was 180 meters in total and was divided into eight sections to allow for construction teams to move quickly from one section to another depending on the needs of the archaeologists. By 1980 thirty-seven apartments had been occupied and thirty-five shops had opened; these were blended with archaeological finds, such as a Hasmonean wall from the second century BCE and rows of Byzantine columns, to integrate seamlessly the new with the old. Another example of this conflation between the modern and the ancient can be seen along the Street of the Jews where shops have been set into old vaults and the gallery is covered by an arched roof containing small apertures to allow for natural lighting.

Cardo of Petra

The excavations at Petra in Jordan have unearthed the remains of an ancient Roman city on the site, with the main feature of the city being a collonated cardo. The original road survives. The Treasury at Petra Petra (from petrus, rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, al-Bitrā) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. ...

External links

Jerusalem Photos Portal Cardo Street

Cardio of Apamea, Syria

The Cardo Maximus of Apamea, Syria ran through the center of the city directly from North to South, linked the principal gates of the city, and was originally surrounded by 1200 columns with unique spiral fluting, each subsequent column spiraling in the opposite direction. The thoroughfare was about 1.85 kilometers long and 37 meters wide, as it was used for wheeled transport. The great colonnade was erected in the 2nd century CE and it was still standing until the 12th. The earthquakes of 1157 and 1170 demolished the colonnade. The cardio was lined on both sides with civic and religious buildings. Apamea is located on the right bank of the Orontes River, about 55 km to the northwest of Hama, Syria, overlooking the Ghab valley. ...