Via Nomentana Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and merged in the Via Salaria a few kilometers beyond Nomentum. It is followed as far as Nomentum by the modern state road, but some traces of its pavement still exist. Originally starting from now-destroyed Porta Collina in the Servian Walls, in the third century emperor Aurelian build
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