Milestones

yards. Also found today are similar with bricks and plastered over with the
looking signs indicating the position of lime. Though not architecturally very Mediterranean.
buried high voltage cables and even impressive, they were an important Christian in
compressed natural gas pipes. part of communication and travel in a nature, it was
large empire.
perennially at
Roman Empire
war with the
Milestones were widely used by Kos is an ancient Indian unit of Muslims,
Roman Empire road builders and were distance. It can represent either a Flourishing
an important part of any Roman road distance of approximately 1.8 during the reign
network though the distance travelled kilometres (1.1 mi) or 3.2 kilometres of the
per day was only a few miles in some (2.0 mi). Minar is a Persian word for Macedonian
cases. Many Roman milestones only tower. Abul Fazl recorded in Akbar emperors, its
record the name of the reigning Nama that in the year 1575 AD, Akbar demise was the consequence of
emperor without giving any place- issued an order that at every kos on attacks by Seljuk Turks, Crusaders, and
names or distances. The first Roman the way from Agra to Ajmer, a pillar or Ottoman Turks.
milestones appeared on the Appian a minar should be erected for the
Way. At the centre of Rome, the comfort of the travelers. Post-Medieval Europe
“Golden Milestone” was erected to
The British built many milestones on
mark the presumed centre of the Byzantine Empire
the island of Malta. They consisted of
empire: the original milestone has A mile-marker monument, the Milion, large slabs of local hard rock and were
since been lost.
was erected in the early 4th Century engraved with the distance to or from
AD in Constantinople. It served as the a particular location. Many of these
India
starting point for measurement of were defaced in World War II to
The Kos Minars (Mughal milestones) or distances for all the roads leading to disorientate forces in a potential
Mile Pillars are medieval milestones the cities of the Byzantine Empire, and invasion.
that were ordered to be erected by had the same function as the
the 16th-century Afghan Ruler Sher Milliarium Aureum of Ancient Rome. In the USA
Shah Suri and later added to by other The Milion survived intact until at least The Golden Milestone of Rome
Mughal emperors. These Minars were the late 15th century. Its fragments inspired the Zero Milestone in
erected on main highways across the were discovered again in the late Washington, D.C., intended as the
empire to mark the distance. 1960s. point from which all road distances in
the United States should be reckoned.
A Kos Minar is a solid round pillar, The Byzantine Empire was the Odometers were used to measure the
around 30 feet (9.1 m) in height that continuation of the Roman Empire in Roman milestone spacing, most likely
stands on a masonry platform built the Greek-speaking, eastern part of based on Ancient Greek Technology.
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