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193: 25: 355: 258:, resembled earlier Greek or Roman inns but were catering specifically to pilgrims, were operated by monks and were typically funded from Church funds or by 200:
While the route ensured primarily a rapid connection especially for military forces, pilgrims such as the anonymous pilgrim of Bordeaux who wrote the
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Anatolia in the 8th century. The Pilgrim's road went from Chalcedon next to Constantinople via Nicomedia, Nicaea, Ancyra and Tarsos to Antioch.
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The name Pilgrim's Road has been traditionally given to the network of roads that connected Constantinople with the eastern provinces of the
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During the middle Byzantine period the route via Ancyra fell out of favour as the Byzantines preferred the route to the Cilician Gates via
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The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia From the End of Late Antiquity Until the Coming of the Turks
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came to take this route in 333-34 and thus gave it the name Pilgrim's road. Apart from the
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in 326. In the century after the Bordeaux pilgrim, possibly on instigation of bishop
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The possibly first prominent pilgrim that took the Pilgrim's road was the mother of
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1963 S. Frederick Starr, "Mapping Ancient Roads in Anatolia" Archaeology, 16:165
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and who took around two months to get from Constantinople to
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so that also poor pilgrims could use the facilities.
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