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"silk road" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to the historical network of trade routes that were used to connect cultures throughout Asia and Europe during the Middle Ages. For example, "Many merchants of the Middle Ages used the Silk Road to trade goods between the Far East and Europe."
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silk road
proper noun
An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.
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And this is just part of the frenetic action shaping what the Beijing leadership defines as the New Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road of the twenty-first century.
Opera "SILK ROAD 2003".
The old silk road specialised in luxuries like silk.
Drogba's family stayed in Surrey, near London, while he took the silk road to Shanghai.
Sheikh Ahmed describes it as being in the middle of the "new silk road".
Antep is on the old silk road that leads to Aleppo.
The new silk road specialises in everything, albeit with a stress on plastic.
Besides being on the silk road, it is famous mainly for its heroic ten-month resistance against a siege by French forces in 1921.
With it they wove fine carpets and flowing scarves that were traded all along the silk road from China to Europe.
Ideas include new investments as well as a broad vision for a "new silk road" that would create jobs and foster economic integration through trade and energy projects.
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Christianity spread along the silk roads under the Romans.
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