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Roads in Romania

Roads in Romania form a public network of about 86,847 km (2024), organized by law into motorways, express roads, European, main, and secondary national roads, and administered nationally by CNAIR.

Oct 20, 2026

Roads: Ake → Bethsaida → Kochaba

Pleiades gazetteer entry for unnamed ancient road segments linking Ake (Ptolemais), Bethsaida, and Kochaba in the Galilee region, created by EM Meyers and JP Brown, published April 2026.

Roads: Buraq → Dionysias

Roads: Buraq → Dionysias is a hypothetical Roman road in southern Syria heading south from Buraq to Dionysias, linked to an archaeologically attested segment near Umm ez-Zeitun/Omra.

Roads: Caesarea → Scythopolis via Ginai(a)

Roads: Caesarea → Scythopolis via Ginai(a), a Pleiades gazetteer entry for Roman road segments from Caesarea Maritima through Ginai(a) to Scythopolis, the earliest dated imperial road in Judaea, marked by an AD 69 Vespasian milestone.

Oct 20, 2026

Roads: Dionysias → Salamanestha

Roads: Dionysias → Salamanestha is a hypothetical Roman secondary road in southern Syria from Dionysias (es-Suweida) to Salamanestha (Sala/Saleh), per Barrington Atlas Map 69 and Bauzou 1985.

Roads: Melitene → Kerar Kale →

Roads: Melitene → Kerar Kale → is the Barrington Atlas Map 64 route from Roman Melitene (Eski Malatya), a legionary road junction, east to Kerar Kale, Claudiopolis in the Şiro Çay valley, likely the Peutinger station Corne, continuing on Map 89.

Roads: Tyrus → Paneas → Damascus

Roman road from Tyre (Tyrus) via Paneas/Banias (Caesarea Philippi) to Damascus, the northern transversal artery of Syria-Palaestina; attested by the Tabula Peutingeriana, an Aurelian milestone naming capita viae Tyrus and Paneas, and surviving pavement and bridges.

Roadside barrier

A roadside barrier is a safety device along a highway that contains or redirects errant vehicles, shielding them from hazards like steep slopes, trees, and bridge piers.

Roadside Design Guide

The Roadside Design Guide is an AASHTO manual presenting recommended practice for roadside safety, including the clear zone concept and barrier guidance, first published in 1989.

Roadside drug testing

Roadside drug testing is the on-site screening of drivers for recent drug use, usually by saliva swab, followed by laboratory confirmation when positive; used in Australia, Belgium, and New Zealand.

Roadside Picnic (Пикник на обочине)

Roadside Picnic (Пикник на обочине) is a 1971 science fiction novel by Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, published 1972, about scavengers called stalkers extracting alien artifacts from six Zones left after the Visitation, with a heavily censored 1980 Soviet edition, a 1972-filtered 1977 Bouis and restored 2012 Bormashenko English translation, and Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) as its famous film adaptation.

Roadside Romeo

Roadside Romeo (2008) is an Indian computer-animated musical comedy, the first co-production of Yash Raj Films and Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Jugal Hansraj, voiced by Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, and Jaaved Jaaferi, and winner of the National Film Award for Best Animation Film.

Roadstar.ai (星行科技)

Roadstar.ai (星行科技) was a Shenzhen-based Level 4 autonomous driving startup founded in 2017 by three former Baidu engineers, which raised about US$138 million before its 2019 liquidation.

Roadstead

Roadstead, also road or roads, an area of sea near shore where vessels anchor and transfer cargo with less shelter than a harbor; part of the territorial sea under UNCLOS Article 12, not inland waters.

Roald Aas

Roald Aas (Roald Edgar Aas, 1928–2012), Norwegian speed skater; Olympic 1500 m gold at Squaw Valley 1960 tied with Yevgeny Grishin, bronze at Oslo 1952, and Egebergs Ærespris 1956 for skating and cycling.

Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who first navigated the Northwest Passage and reached the South Pole in December 1911, ahead of Robert Scott.

Roald Bradstock

Roald Bradstock (born 1962), "The Olympic Picasso", British javelin thrower at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, 1986 new-javelin world record holder (81.74 m), masters world record holder, and Olympic artist.

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916–1990), British author born in Wales to Norwegian parents, wrote 19 children's books including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and The BFG, plus dark adult short stories; his legacy includes 300 million sales, 2023 Puffin revisions, and acknowledged antisemitism.

Roald Dahl bibliography

The Roald Dahl bibliography lists the works of the British author Roald Dahl, 58 works including children's books like Matilda and The BFG, from 1943 to 1991.

Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann, born Roald Safran, is a Polish-born American theoretical chemist at Cornell University, known for the Woodward–Hoffmann rules and half of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Roald Larsen

Roald Morel Larsen, Norwegian speed skater (1898-1959), won six Olympic medals (2 silver, 4 bronze) at Chamonix 1924 and St. Moritz 1928 without gold, and set a 500 m world record of 43.1 in 1928.

Sep 21, 2026

Roald Sagdeev

Roald Sagdeev (Роальд Сагдеев), born 1932, is a Soviet-born plasma physicist known for collisionless shock waves and plasma turbulence, who directed the Soviet Space Research Institute from 1973 to 1988.

Roall auxiliary fort

Roall auxiliary fort: a Flavian-period (AD 69-96) Roman auxiliary fort near Kellington, North Yorkshire, found as cropmarks in 1991; double-ditched playing-card fort, 154 x 138 m, supplied by the River Aire rather than a road.

Roam (electric motorcycle company)

Roam, formerly Opibus, is a Nairobi-based electric mobility company founded in 2017 that builds electric motorcycles and buses, including the Roam Air for boda boda taxi use.

Roaming

Roaming, also known as international or mobile roaming, is the set of network functions and agreements letting a subscriber use services on a visited network outside their home operator's coverage.

Roan (horse)

Roan is an autosomal dominant horse coat pattern of evenly mixed white and colored body hairs with dark head, legs, mane, and tail, linked to KIT on ECA 3, viable when homozygous, and distinct from gray, rabicano, and varnish roan.

Roan antelope

Roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), Africa's second largest antelope, a savanna grazer with scimitar horns; IUCN Least Concern but declining, 50,000-60,000 mature individuals, extinct in Burundi and Eritrea.

Roan Curtis

Roan Curtis (born 1997, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress known for Young Kate Mularkey on Firefly Lane and as Olivia Quinn in Hope Valley: 1874, with early credits in Smallville, Supernatural, Shut Eye, The Magicians, and films 1922 and Before I Fall.

Oct 22, 2026

Roan Selection Trust

Roan Selection Trust, founded in 1928 as the Rhodesian Selection Trust, was a London-based, American-staffed mining group operating Zambia's Copperbelt mines until nationalization around 1970.