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άξονα Αδριατικής και της Εγνατίας

English translation: The Adriatic Sea and Via Egnatia Axis

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Greek term or phrase:Άξονα Αδριατικής και Εγνατίας
English translation:The Adriatic Sea and Via Egnatia Axis
Entered by: eumeridou

11:51 Mar 19, 2003
Greek to English translations [PRO]
Greek term or phrase: άξονα Αδριατικής και της Εγνατίας
Σήμερα τα Ιωάννινα καλούνται να διαδραματίσουν καθοριστικό ρόλο στον άξονα της Αδριατικής και της Εγνατίας
eumeridou
Local time: 04:28
the Adriatic and Via Egnatia Axis
Explanation:
OR:
(to) the axis stretching from the Adriatic to the Via Egnatia ..

The Via Egnatia crossing the Balkans and stretching from the Adriatic to the Sea
of Marmara constituted an axis of strategical and commercial importance for ...
www.pek.uch.gr/books/04/sumvol-epist-anthr/ ist-arx-texnis/07.htm

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Note added at 2003-03-19 11:59:44 (GMT)
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ξέχασα να γράψω ότι καλύτερα να βάλεις \"Adriatic Sea..\"

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Note added at 2003-03-19 12:01:51 (GMT)
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The Egnatia continued to be an important road even during the Byzantine period, as it connected the ports of the Orient and the Black Sea with Thessaloniki and the Adriatic Sea. During the Turkish Occupation period, the Egnatia was the major terrestrial commercial road, providing access to the ports of the Mediterranean.

www.archimedia.gr/hypertour/ epirus/html_refs/rf_31.html

Επίσης στο google θα βρεις και στοιχεία που αφορούν την κατασκευή της Νέας Εγνατίας Οδού... (Εgnatia Motorway). Αν σου χρειάζεται βεβαίως...

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Note added at 2003-03-19 12:03:04 (GMT)
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The Egnatia continued to be an important road even during the Byzantine period, as it connected the ports of the Orient and the Black Sea with Thessaloniki and the Adriatic Sea. During the Turkish Occupation period, the Egnatia was the major terrestrial commercial road, providing access to the ports of the Mediterranean.

www.archimedia.gr/hypertour/ epirus/html_refs/rf_31.html

Επίσης στο google θα βρεις και στοιχεία που αφορούν την κατασκευή της Νέας Εγνατίας Οδού... (Εgnatia Motorway). Αν σου χρειάζεται βεβαίως...
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Joanne Panteleon
Greece
Local time: 04:28
Grading comment
Ευχαριστώ πολύ για την τεκμηριωμένη απάντηση σας
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4 +9the Adriatic and Via Egnatia Axis
Joanne Panteleon
4 +1Adriatic-Egnatia arterial route
Dylan Edwards


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
the Adriatic and Via Egnatia Axis


Explanation:
OR:
(to) the axis stretching from the Adriatic to the Via Egnatia ..

The Via Egnatia crossing the Balkans and stretching from the Adriatic to the Sea
of Marmara constituted an axis of strategical and commercial importance for ...
www.pek.uch.gr/books/04/sumvol-epist-anthr/ ist-arx-texnis/07.htm

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Note added at 2003-03-19 11:59:44 (GMT)
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ξέχασα να γράψω ότι καλύτερα να βάλεις \"Adriatic Sea..\"

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Note added at 2003-03-19 12:01:51 (GMT)
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The Egnatia continued to be an important road even during the Byzantine period, as it connected the ports of the Orient and the Black Sea with Thessaloniki and the Adriatic Sea. During the Turkish Occupation period, the Egnatia was the major terrestrial commercial road, providing access to the ports of the Mediterranean.

www.archimedia.gr/hypertour/ epirus/html_refs/rf_31.html

Επίσης στο google θα βρεις και στοιχεία που αφορούν την κατασκευή της Νέας Εγνατίας Οδού... (Εgnatia Motorway). Αν σου χρειάζεται βεβαίως...

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Note added at 2003-03-19 12:03:04 (GMT)
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The Egnatia continued to be an important road even during the Byzantine period, as it connected the ports of the Orient and the Black Sea with Thessaloniki and the Adriatic Sea. During the Turkish Occupation period, the Egnatia was the major terrestrial commercial road, providing access to the ports of the Mediterranean.

www.archimedia.gr/hypertour/ epirus/html_refs/rf_31.html

Επίσης στο google θα βρεις και στοιχεία που αφορούν την κατασκευή της Νέας Εγνατίας Οδού... (Εgnatia Motorway). Αν σου χρειάζεται βεβαίως...

Joanne Panteleon
Greece
Local time: 04:28
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 87
Grading comment
Ευχαριστώ πολύ για την τεκμηριωμένη απάντηση σας

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Zoi Siapanta (X)
2 mins
agree  Ali Beikian
11 mins
agree  Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi
23 mins
agree  Vickie Dimitriadou (X): You are an "Egnatia Expert", chere madame! Congrats! AV ;)
24 mins
agree  Spiros Doikas
37 mins
agree  FREDERICA
40 mins
agree  MariaLP
10 hrs
agree  Egmont
3 days 4 mins
agree  Joanna5
3 days 12 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Adriatic-Egnatia arterial route


Explanation:
I assume it's clear from your text that this is the route of the Egnatia Motorway, which runs from the Adriatic (from Igoumenitsa on the Adriatic coast)eastwards, more or less following the route of the old Via Egnatia.
"Axonas" translates literally as "axis". "Axis" doesn't seem quite right to me. The word is often used in the sense of a major route / key route, and there's also the British term "trunk road", but I think the best and most official-sounding translation in this context is "arterial route". For "arterial route" / "arterial road", see the OECD's information about Pan-European transport routes.

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I don\'t dispute the historical information, and I leave it to you to judge which term is best in the context.
\"Transport axis\" exists in English as a modern and rather specialist term (it can be found in transport dictionaries), and is not necessarily the most appropriate term in a historical context.
I have found \"Egnatia axis\" on at least one website, where the context was very definitely road-building, tunnel construction etc.
So really it\'s a question of the intended readership for this text.



    Reference: http://www.oecd.org
Dylan Edwards
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 576

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Estella
16 hrs
disagree  Joanne Panteleon: The asker has submitted a lot of questions on the History of Epirus.And as such tranlation should be made in view of that context...the motorway is a new project built on the very same alignment of the old Via Egnatia Axis.Pls check the Historic info..
18 hrs
  -> Yes, I accept that this is mainly a historical text. I'd think carefully about using the word "Axis". Terms such as "road axis", "transport axis" are probably used mainly by specialists (transport specialists, motorway construction specialists).
agree  George Tzathas
18 hrs
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