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Decumanus Street
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Decumanus Street
Decumanus Street
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Decumanus Street
Decumanus Street
Decumanus Street
Decumanus Street
Decumanus Street
Decumanus Street
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Porec, Croatia

In Roman city planning, a decumanus was an east-west-oriented road in a Roman city, castrum , or colonia. The main decumanus was the Decumanus Maximus, which normally connected the Porta Praetoria to the Porta Decumana .This name comes from the fact that the via decumana or decimana separated the Tenth Cohort from the Ninth in the legionary encampment, in the same way as the via quintana separated the Fifth Cohort from the Sixth. In the middle, or groma, the Decumanus Maximus crosses the perpendicular Cardo Maximus, the primary north-south road that was the usual main street. The Forum is normally located close to this intersection of the Decumanus Maximus and the Cardo Maximus.
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