Caravan Legs of the Medieval Silk Road
Principal caravan legs of the medieval Silk Road, by route, drawn as arcs.
The principal overland legs of the medieval Silk Road, rendered as arcs between staging cities and grouped into the northern, western and southern corridors. Arc width encodes a nominal traffic volume. The compilation is illustrative — a simplified skeleton of the route system — not a transport record.
| Theme | Historical — religious & historical geography |
|---|---|
| Region | Eurasia |
| Temporal range | c. 800–1200 CE |
| Geographic coverage | Transregional |
| Records | 14 geolocated entities |
| Data source | Representative compilation (manual) |
| Centroid | 37.13° N · 63.75° E |
| Last revised | Jun 2026 |
A hand-assembled, representative skeleton of the medieval Silk Road (staging cities, corridor attribution, an indicative date and a nominal traffic volume), simplified from standard accounts for cartographic illustration of route flows.
The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.046.