page_title: Roman roads
section_title: Other areas
hierarchical_section_title: Roman roads / Locations / Other areas
caption_attribution_description: English: Roads and Towns in Germania Inferior Nederlands: Wegen en Nerderzettingen in Germania Inferior
context_page_description: Roman roads were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. They provided efficient means for the overland movement of armies, officials, civilians, inland carriage of official communications, and trade goods. Roman roads were of several kinds, ranging from small local roads to broad, long-distance highways built to connect cities, major towns and military bases. These major roads were often stone-paved and metaled, cambered for drainage, and were flanked by footpaths, bridleways and drainage ditches. They were laid along accurately surveyed courses, and some were cut through hills, or conducted over rivers and ravines on bridgework. Sections could be supported over marshy ground on rafted or piled foundations.
  At the peak of Rome's development, no fewer than 29 great military highways radiated from the capital, and the late Empire's 113 provinces were interconnected by 372 great roads. The whole comprised more than 400,000 kilometres of roads, of which over 80,500 kilometres were stone-paved.
context_section_description: 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
  Via Pontica
  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:
  Ab Asturica Burdigalam
  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
caption: Major Roman roads in Germania Inferior
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