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Amber Route: The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder (23/24-79 A.C.) reports 
that amber was transported from the Baltic sea to Aquileia via this 
route, which had been of considerable importance ever since 
prehistoric times. In Austria, the Amber route follows the 
March/Morava river, crosses the Danube near Carnuntum (Lower Austria) 
and leads to the Adriatic sea via Sopron (Hungary) and Ljubljana 
(Slovenia). South of the Danube, the Romans already used the route as 
an important transport road in the early 1%%sup st/%  century A.C.


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