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Roman roads were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and, later,
Combined data from the Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary recording the Roman roads network.
The Appian Way, one of the oldest and most important Roman roads
Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel
Section of the Via delle Gallie (Valle d'Aosta) in Italy, built by excavating the steep rock slope at left
Appian Way
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The Appian Way, also known by its Latin and Italian name, Via Appia, is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in sout
Roman roads
…of the drains." Livy mentions some of the most familiar roads near Rome, and the milestones on them, at times long before the first paved road—the Appian Way. Unless these allusions are just simple anachronisms, the roads referred to were probably at the time little more than levelled earthen tracks. Thus…
Section of the Regional Park, Rome
Near Rome
Grave monument of Caius Rabirius Postumus Hermodorus, Lucia Rabiria Demaris and Usia Prima, priestess of Isis along the Via Appia, near Quarto Miglio
Via Appia within the ancient Minturno