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Minija (village) Minija or Mingė (in older texts also "Minė", often nicknamed "Lithuanian Venice") is a small fishermen's village in Šilutė District Municipality, Lithuania on Minija river, and is part of Nemunas Delta Regional Park. This village is unique in Lithuania as the main "road" is the river. Houses are situated on both banks and there is no bridge to connect them. The only way to get around is to use a boat. In 1997 it had 48 residents.
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Nemunas Delta Nemunas Delta is the Lithuanian name for the Neman (Nemunas) River Delta, in Lithuania. Prior to post-World War II border changes, it was known in German as the "Memel Niederung", as the Neman was for centuries called the Memel in German.
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Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Bulevar kralja Aleksandra (; meaning "King Aleksandar Boulevard" or "Boulevard of King Aleksandar") is the longest street entirely within the urban limits of Serbian capital Belgrade, with length of 7.5 kilometers. Known for decades after World War II as "Bulevar Revolucije" (Boulevard of the Revolution), it is so distinct in the Belgraders' hearts and minds that they simply refer to it as the Bulevar, although there are 20 boulevards in Belgrade.
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Via Maris Via Maris is the modern name for an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia — modern day Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey and Syria. In Latin, "Via Maris" means "way of the sea." It is a historic road that runs along the Israeli Mediterranean coast. It was the most important route from Egypt to Syria (the Fertile Crescent) which followed the coastal plain before crossing over into the plain of Jezreel and the Jordan valley.
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Sniper Alley "Sniper Alley" (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: "Snajperska aleja" / Снајперска алеја) was the informal name primarily for streets Zmaja od Bosne Street (Улица Змаја од Босне; Dragon of Bosnia Street) and Meša Selimović Boulevard, the main boulevard in Sarajevo which during the Bosnian War was lined with snipers' posts, and became infamous as a dangerous place for civilians to traverse. The road connects the industrial part of the city (and further on, Sarajevo Airport) to the Old Town's cultural and historic sites. The boulevard itself has many high-rise buildings giving sniper shooters extensive fields of fire.
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Old Sava Bridge Old Sava Bridge (Serbian: Стари савски мост , "Stari savski most " ) is a 430 m and 40 m bridge, crossing the river Sava in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the smallest road bridge in the Serbian capital and is used both for car and tram traffic. The main span between the two pillars of this tied arch bridge is over 157 m in length. Two bus lines and three tram lines of Belgrade public transport use the bridge.
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Kampala–Jinja Highway The Kampala–Jinja Highway is a road in Uganda, connecting the cities of Kampala and Jinja. Sometimes referred to as Kampala–Jinja Road, it is a busy road, with several towns, trading centers and other points of interest along the way. As of October 2016, a new, wider, four-lane dual carriageway expressway, the Kampala–Jinja Expressway, is proposed to be constructed south of the present highway to relieve traffic and complement existing transport infrastructure between Kampala and Jinja.
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Great North Road, New Zealand Great North Road is a major thoroughfare in Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. It runs from the fringe of the Auckland CBD to west Auckland. The road is the second longest in Auckland, after its counterpart, Great South Road. In the days before the Auckland Harbour Bridge, Northern Motorway and Northwestern Motorway were built, it was the main road route from central Auckland to the areas north of the Auckland isthmus. In the 1960s, it carried 25,000–30,000 vehicles a day.
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Ashmun Street Ashmun Street is a main thoroughfare of Monrovia, Liberia. It crosses the city in a north-west to south-easterly direction in alignment with the coast but several hundred yards away. It houses some of the most important buildings in the city including the Liberian National Museum which was previously the Old Court of Law of Liberia.
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Inner Ring Road, Berlin The Berlin Inner Ring (German: "Berliner Innenstadtring" ) road is a beltway route of major roads around the historic city centre of Berlin encompassing the boroughs of Mitte, Pankow and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. It is named "Inner Ring" to distinguish it from both the wider City Ring ("Stadtring") road including the Bundesautobahn 100 sections and the outer Berlin Ring ("Berliner Ring") orbital motorway.
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Arnavutköy Arnavutköy (meaning "Albanian village" in Turkish; known in Greek as "Mega Rhevma" (Μέγα Ῥεύμα), meaning "great current") is a historic neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey, famous for its wooden Ottoman mansions and seafood restaurants, as well as the campus of the prestigious Robert College with its centennial buildings. It is part of the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, and is located between Ortaköy and Bebek on the European shoreline of the Bosphorus strait.
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Nevėžis (river) The Nevėžis ( ) is the sixth longest river in Lithuania and one of the main tributaries of the Nemunas. Its length is 209 km , and it flows only within the geographical confines of Lithuania. It is the second longest river in Lithuania, after the Šventoji, that flows exclusively within its borders. Its source is in the Anykščiai District Municipality, and the river first flows in a northwesterly direction, but then at Panevėžys turns towards the southwest, and passing Kėdainiai, flows into the Neman just west of Kaunas near Raudondvaris.
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Varshavskoye Highway Varshavskoye Highway (Russian: Варшавское шоссе ) is a major street in Moscow, Russia, continued beyond the city limit at Moscow Ring Road into Moscow Oblast as a backup route for M2 highway, a major trunk road. It continues the Bolshaya Tulskaya Street of central Moscow, and close from its start the Kashira Highway branches from it.
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A6 (Croatia) The A6 motorway (Croatian: "Autocesta A6" ) is a motorway in Croatia spanning 80.2 km . It connects the nation's capital, Zagreb, via the A1, to the seaport of Rijeka. The motorway forms a major north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and is a part of European route E65 Nagykanizsa–Zagreb–Rijeka–Zadar–Split–Dubrovnik–Podgorica. The A6 motorway route also follows Pan-European corridor Vb.
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Ermou Street (Athens) Ermou Street (Greek: Οδός Ερμού , "Odos Ermou", "Hermes Street"), is a one and a half kilometer-long road in central Athens, Greece, connecting Kerameikos archaeological site with the Syntagma Square through Monastiraki, Psiri and Thiseio.
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Laisvės alėja Laisvės Alėja (literally Liberty Boulevard or Liberty Avenue) is a prominent pedestrian street in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania. It stretches between the St. Michael the Archangel's Byzantine-style church to the Central Post Office and Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum, around the Kaunas Old Town, the oldest section of Kaunas. For a long time it was the main commercial district of Kaunas.
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IJ (Amsterdam) The IJ (pronounced ] ; sometimes shown on old maps as "Y" or "Ye") is a body of water, formerly a bay, in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is known for being Amsterdam's waterfront. Its name is an obsolete Dutch word meaning "water", derived from the West Frisian word "ie" "stream, small river" (from Germanic *"ahwō", "water") and is cognate with Dutch Aa/Ee names for bodies of water. The name consists of the digraph "ij", which behaves like a single letter. Therefore, both letters are capitalized; cf. IJmuiden.
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Saint Denis Street Saint Denis Street (officially in French: Rue Saint-Denis ) is a major north-south thoroughfare in Montreal, Quebec.
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A122 highway (Nigeria) The A122 highway is a highway in Nigeria. It is one of the "east-west" roads linking the main "south-north" roads. (It is named from the two highways it links).
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Ring 2 (Copenhagen) Ring 2 is a ring road that surrounds the most central part of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of the Danish national road network. The total length of the road is about 26 km.
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Marshrutka Marshrutka (Russian: "маршру́тка" ] ), from "marshrutn[oy]e taksi" routed taxicab, is a form of public transportation such as a share taxi for the countries of CIS, the Baltic states, Bulgaria, Georgia and Syria. The role of the modern marshrutka is theoretically similar to the share taxi, that use minibuses in other countries.
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National primary road A national primary road (Irish: "Bóthar príomha náisiúnta" ) is a road classification in Ireland. National primary roads form the major routes between the major urban centres. There are 2649 km of national primary roads. This category of road has the prefix "N" followed by one or two digits. Motorways are prefixed "M" followed by one or two digits.