Roman roads
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Roman roads were a vital part of the development of the Roman state, from about 500 BC through the expansion during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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Locations
There are many examples of roads that still follow the route of Roman roads.
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Italian areas
- Major roads
- Via Aemilia, from Rimini (Ariminum) to Placentia
- Via Appia, the Appian way (312 BC), from Rome to Apulia
- Via Aurelia (241 BC), from Rome to France
- Via Cassia, from Rome to Tuscany
- Via Flaminia (220 BC), from Rome to Rimini (Ariminum)
- Via Raetia, from Verona north across the Brenner Pass
- Via Salaria, from Rome to the Adriatic Sea (in the Marches)
- Others
- Via Aemilia Scauri (109 BC)
- Via Aquillia, branches off the Appia at Capua to the sea at Vibo
- Via Amerina, from Rome to Amelia and Perusia
- Via Canalis, from Udine, Gemona and Val Canale to Villach in Carinthia and then over Alps to Salzburg or Vienna
- Via Claudia Julia Augusta (13 BC)
- Via Claudia Nova (47 AD)
- Via Clodia, from Rome to Tuscany forming a system with the Cassia
- Via Domitiana, coast road from Naples to Formia
- Via Flavia, from Trieste (Tergeste) to Dalmatia
- Via Gemina, from Aquileia and Trieste through the Karst to Materija, Obrov, Lipa and Klana, from where, near Rijeka, descending towards Trsat (Tersatica) to continue along the Dalmatian coast
- Via Julia Augusta (8 BC), exits Aquileia
- Via Labicana, southeast from Rome, forming a system with the Praenestina
- Via Ostiensis, from Rome to Ostia
- Via Postumia (148 BC), from Aquileia through Verona across the Apennines to Genoa
- Via Popilia (132 BC), two distinct roads, one from Capua to Rhegium and the other from Ariminum through the later Veneto region
- Via Praenestina, from Rome to Praeneste
- Via Schlavonia, from Aquileia across northern Istria to Senj and into Dalmatia
- Via Severiana, Terracina to Ostia
- Via Tiburtina, from Rome to Aternum
- Via Traiana, a branch of Via Appia, from Benevento to Brindisi
- Via Traiana Nova (Italy), from Lake Bolsena to the Via Cassia. Known by archaeology only
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Other areas
- Africa
- Main road: from Sala Colonia to Carthage to Alexandria.
- In Egypt: Via Hadriana
- In Mauretania Tingitana from Tingis southward (see: Roman roads in Morocco)
- Albania / North Macedonia / Greece / Turkey
- Via Egnatia (146 BC) connecting Dyrrhachium (on Adriatic Sea) to Byzantium via Thessaloniki
- Austria / Serbia / Bulgaria / Turkey
- Via Militaris (Via Diagonalis, Via Singidunum), connecting Middle Europe and Byzantium
- Roman road in Cilicia in south Turkey
- Roman Road of Ankara
- France
In France, a Roman road is called voie romaine in vernacular language.
- Via Agrippa
- Via Aquitania, from Narbonne, where it connected to the Via Domitia, to the Atlantic Ocean across Toulouse and Bordeaux
- Via Domitia (118 BC), from Nîmes to the Pyrenees, where it joins to the Via Augusta at the Col de Panissars
- Roman road (Nord), extending from Dunkirk to Cassel in Nord Département
- Germania Inferior (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands)
- Roman road from Trier to Cologne
- Via Belgica (Boulogne-Cologne)
- Lower Limes Germanicus
- Interconnections between Lower Limes Germanicus and Via Belgica
- Middle East
- Via Maris
- Via Traiana Nova
- Petra Roman Road 1st-century Petra, Jordan
- Romania
- Trajan's bridge and Iron Gates road.
- Via Traiana: Porolissum Napoca Potaissa Apulum road.
- Via Pontica: Troesmis Piroboridava Caput Stenarum Apulum Partiscum Lugio
- Romania / Bulgaria
- Spain and Portugal
- Iter ab Emerita Asturicam, from Sevilla to Gijón. Later known as Vía de la Plata (plata means "silver" in Spanish, but in this case it is a false cognate of an Arabic word balata), part of the fan of the Way of Saint James. Now it is the A-66 freeway.
- Via Augusta, from Cádiz to the Pyrénées, where it joins to the Via Domitia at the Coll de Panissars, near La Jonquera. It passes through Valencia, Tarragona (anciently Tarraco), and Barcelona.
- Camiño de Oro, ending in Ourense, capital of the Province of Ourense, passing near the village of Reboledo.
- Syria
- Road connecting Antioch and Chalcis.
- Strata Diocletiana, along the Limes Arabicus, going through Palmyra and Damascus, and south to Arabia.
- Trans-Alpine roads
These roads connected modern Italy and Germany
- Via Claudia Augusta (47) from Altinum (now Quarto d'Altino) to Augsburg via the Reschen Pass
- Via Mala from Milan to Lindau via the San Bernardino Pass
- Via Decia
- Trans-Pyrenean roads
Connecting Hispania and Gallia:
- United Kingdom
- Akeman Street
- Camlet Way
- Dere Street
- Ermine Street
- Fen Causeway
- Fosse Way
- King Street
- London-West of England Roman Roads
- Peddars Way
- Pye Road
- Roman road from Silchester to Bath
- Stane Street (Chichester)
- Stane Street (Colchester)
- Stanegate
- Via Devana
- Watling Street
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See also
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