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One of ancient Rome's oldest roads is named after salt
The Via Salaria, the “salt road,” was the route the Sabines used to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber. It later ran 242 km from Rome to the Adriatic, and today's highway SS4 still follows it and keeps its name. Some historians think the salt trade is why Rome was settled where it was.
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- Wikipedia. Via Salaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Salaria