Via Egnatia

The via Egnatia is a Roman Voie which crossed Balkans, by taking again an old layout of way Macedonian, built in the neighborhoods of -146.

On the basis of the port of Dyrrachium with a branch coming from the port of Apollonie d' Illyrie, it crossed Pella, Thessalonique, Amphipolis, Philips and finished with Byzance. Emerged of the sea route between Bari and Dyrrachium, it prolonged the route of the Voie Appienne until the passage between Europe and Asia.

This prolongation of the Appienne way is perhaps at the origin of the attribution of the construction of Via Egnatia with Appius Claudius Caecus, indication which one finds in certain documents or Web sites, and which is chronologically completely impossible.

External bonds

  • Via Egnatia

  • Michele Fasolo: It via Egnatia I. Da Apollonia E Dyrrachium AD Herakleia Lynkestidos , Istituto Grafico Leading Romano, II ediz., Roma 2005

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