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There were at least a few main routes. I am thinking here about the Mamluk & Ottoman barid connection between Damascus and Cairo for instance. At Jubb Yussef (Joseph's Well) there is material insufficiently referenced, but probably all from Kohner (2006), listing the following stations, to which I have added a couple of bridges, too:
not listed, but probably immediately before Sa'sa': Damascus