Saturday, April 24, 2010

What was the name of the military road connecting Rome to other italian cities?

I think it was via appia.It was the most famous of the Roman roads, built (312 B.C.) under Appius Claudius Caecus. It connected Rome with Capua and was later extended to Beneventum (now Benevento), Tarentum (Taranto), and Brundisium (Brindisi). It was the chief highway to Greece and the East. Its total length was more than 350 mi (563 km). The substantial construction of cemented stone blocks has preserved it to the present. Branch roads led to Neapolis (Naples), Barium (Bari), and other ports. On the first stretch of road out of Rome are interesting tombs and the Church of St. Sebastian with its catacombs. In 1784, Pope Pius VI built the new Appian Way from Rome to Albano, parallel with the old.

What was the name of the military road connecting Rome to other italian cities?
THE MOST IMPORTANT MILITARY ROAD(VIA MILITARIS) WAS THE VIA EGNATIA.


In Roman Times, one of the two most important roads leading to the capital was the VIA EGNATIA, an overseas extension of the Via Traiana that crossed present-day Greece to the Evros River and continued on to its final destination, Kypsela, across Epidamnos (Dyrrachium), Lychnidos, Heracleia, Edessa, Pella, Thessaloniki, Amfipolis, Filippoi, Topeiro, Maximianoupolis and Traianoupolis.





The Via Egnatia was built between 146 and 120 BC, initially following the traces of an older, pre-Roman road running from the Adriatic to the Aegean . Later, it was extended from the Evros to Byzantium , and eventually the name "Egnatia" was given to the entire road, i.e. from Rome to Constantinople , in honour of the Roman proconsul Gnaeus Egnatius who built it. The Romans initially used the road for military purposes, but as it became more widely used it rapidly developed into the main road from the Adriatic to the Black Sea.


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