Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Via Regia, i.e. "King's Highway", denotes a mediæval historic road. The term, in the usual sense, means not just a specific road, rather a type of road. It was legally associated with the king and remained under his special protection and guarantee of public peace. There were many such roads in the Holy Roman Empire e.g. the King's road from Menzlin to Wismar in present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the "most significant East-West road in the north" of the mediæval west Slavic Lutici settlement areas. The best known Via Regia from the Rhine river via Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig to Silesia, with time, came to be called Via Regia itself. In 2005 it was awarded the title of a European Cultural Route by the Council of Europe.