page_title: Cardo
section_title: Jerash, Jordan
hierarchical_section_title: Cardo / Examples / Jerash, Jordan
caption_attribution_description: Cardo Maximus, Jerash, Jordan
context_page_description: Cardo was the Latin name given to a north-south street in Ancient Roman cities and military camps as an integral component of city planning. The cardo maximus, or most often the cardo, was the main or central north–south-oriented street.
context_section_description: The excavations at Jerash in Jordan have unearthed the remains of an ancient Roman city on the site, with the mains feature of the city being a colonnaded cardo. The original road surface survived.
caption: Roman cardo in Jerash (Jordan)
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