Via Latina Via Latina The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome. It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later. It follows, too, a
Salami Romanian, Bulgarian, and Turkish, the word is "salam"; in Hungarian, it is "szalámi"; while Polish, Czecho-Slovak, French, German, and Dutch have the same word as English. The name may be derived from the Latin words "salsiccia" and "salumen". The word originates from the word "sale" (salt) with a termination ("ame") that in Italian indicates a collective noun. Thus, it originally meant "all kinds of salted (meats)". The Italian tradition of cured meats includes several styles, and the word "salame" soon specifically meant only the most popular kind—a salted and spiced meat, ground and extruded into an elongated, thin casing (usually