page_title: Cardo
section_title: Beit She'an, Israel
hierarchical_section_title: Cardo / Examples / Beit She'an, Israel
caption_attribution_description: English: A Roman street in Bet She'an National Park, Israel
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: Beit She'an was one of a group of 10 cities known as 'Decapolis' on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Judea. It was a self-governed city established by the Romans to promote Roman culture. It was built with a central cardo, temples, theaters, baths and other public buildings, and minted its own coins.
caption: Roman cardo in Beit She'an, Israel
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