What is the substance made from petroleum used for road surfacing, whose name derives from Greek meaning 'of foreign origin'?
Petroleum Road Petroleum Road The Petroleum Road or Tapline Road (Hebrew: כביש הנפט, "Kvish HaNeft") is a privately owned north-south asphalt road in the Golan Heights. It is long. It begins near Mount Peres on the east edge of the central Golan, and ends in the northern Golan near the Israeli controlled Golan-Lebanese frontier, nearby Ghajar. Most of the road is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality. The name "Petroleum Road" derives from the now defunct oil pipeline of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company, which the road runs adjacent to. The "Tapline", as it is abbreviated, originated
Origin of the name Khuzestan Origin of the name Khuzestan Although Herodotus and Xenophon referred to the entire region as Susiana, the name Khuzestan is what has been referred to the southwestern most province of Persia (Iran) from antiquity. In some instances, sugar and sugar cane have been given as the meaning of Khuz. The fertile soil of Khuzestan has a splendid potential for growing this plant, making excellent harvests for sugar cane possible here. However, most experts believe the name Khuzestan to be derived from "Ķūzī", the name of the original non-Semitic people of the province, whose distinctive language reportedly survived until Sassanid times.