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    Just wanted to say thanks again paullus - I'm rearranging unique buildings and plugging the description you wrote in now.

    (slightly revised):
    Bab el Mandeb
    Bab el Mandeb

    This strait forms the boundary between the Arabikos Kolpos (or the Red Sea) and the main area of the Erythra Thalassa (most of which we now know as the Indian Ocean). It was known by the Hellenes as Deire, the Neck, since on either side of the strait Africa and Arabia come close to one another, and the strait is squeezed between them for several kilometers, creating the appearance of a neck. The Hellenes probably appropriated the name from merchants of the Erythra Thalassa. Herodotos claimed that the straits were crossed by the Egyptian conqueror Sesostris, though modern authorities doubt the Egyptians ever controlled the straits, and debate whether Sesostris existed at all. Most of the traffic around the straits was passing through by sea, rather than moving from Africa to Arabia. Merchant vessels traveling the routes from India to Berenike had to pass through Deire, which developed a reputation for having turbulent waters. However, there were several important trading centers just outside of the straits, and some of these, such as Muza in Arabia, became halfway depots: merchants could travel to these places and back home again, rather than making the entire journey. The nearby port of Adulis, on the African side, was a key site for the ivory trade. The straits, and the mountains running south and west from them in Africa, formed a sort of frontier between Aethiopia and the Far Side of Africa.
    If anyone would like to do one for the straits of Hormuz, please let me know.
    Last edited by Teleklos Archelaou; 04-22-2006 at 01:53.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
    If anyone would like to do one for the straits of Hormuz, please let me know.
    Here's what already in v.74:

    {uniqueroad3_roman} The Straits of Hormuz (TRANSLATE ME PLEASE!)
    {uniqueroad3_roman_desc}
    The Straits of Hormuz (from the "Periplus", a Ptolemaic navigation guide).\n\nAt the upper end of these Calaei islands is a range of mountains called Calon, and there follows not far beyond, the mouth of the Persian Gulf, where there is much diving for the pearl-mussel. To the left of the straits are great mountains called Asabon, and to the right there rises in full view another round and high mountain called Semiramis; between them the passage across the strait is about six hundred stadia; beyond which that very great and broad sea, the Persian Gulf, reaches far into the interior.
    {uniqueroad3_roman_desc_short}
    The strait connecting the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean.

    {uniqueroad3_numidia} Bab el Mandeb (TRANSLATE ME PLEASE!)
    {uniqueroad3_numidia_desc}
    This strait forms the boundary between the Arabikos Kolpos (or the Red Sea) and the main area of the Erythra Thalassa (most of which we now know as the Indian Ocean). It was known by the Greeks as Deire, the Neck, since on either side of the strait Africa and Arabia come close to one another, and the strait is squeezed between them for several kilometers, creating the appearance of a neck. The Greeks probably appropriated the name from merchants of the Erythra Thalassa. Herodotos claimed that the straits were crossed by the Egyptian conqueror Sesostris, though modern authorities doubt the Egyptians ever controlled the straits, and debate whether Sesostris existed at all. Most of the traffic around the straits was passing through by sea, rather than moving from Africa to Arabia. Merchant vessels traveling the routes from India to Berenike had to pass through Deire, which developed a reputation for having turbulent waters. However, there were several important trading centers just outside of the straits, and some of these, such as Muza in Arabia, became halfway depots: merchants could travel to these places and back home again, rather than making the entire journey. The nearby port of Adulis, on the African side, was a key site for the ivory trade. The straits, and the mountains running south and west from them in Africa, formed a sort of frontier between Aethiopia and the Far Side of Africa.
    {uniqueroad3_numidia_desc_short}
    This strait forms the boundary between the Arabikos Kolpos (Red Sea) and the main area of the Erythra Thalassa (Indian Ocean).
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    Teleklos and Kull,

    Some names can't be found. It's really very hard to find the Skythian language, or the original temple name in Jerusalem.

    Also, can you give me a list of the buildings which don't have descripts?
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    Default Re: Building Descriptions - some of our more unique ones

    Quote Originally Posted by Kull
    Here's what already in v.74:

    {uniqueroad3_roman} The Straits of Hormuz (TRANSLATE ME PLEASE!)
    {uniqueroad3_roman_desc}
    The Straits of Hormuz (from the "Periplus", a Ptolemaic navigation guide).\n\nAt the upper end of these Calaei islands is a range of mountains called Calon, and there follows not far beyond, the mouth of the Persian Gulf, where there is much diving for the pearl-mussel. To the left of the straits are great mountains called Asabon, and to the right there rises in full view another round and high mountain called Semiramis; between them the passage across the strait is about six hundred stadia; beyond which that very great and broad sea, the Persian Gulf, reaches far into the interior.
    {uniqueroad3_roman_desc_short}
    The strait connecting the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean.
    Since several eamples of periploi have survived I would prefere to use the full name Periplus Maris Erythraei, and it's commonly dated to the first century AD not Ptolemaic times.

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