The Via Egnatia was a road constructed by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. It crossed Illyricum, Macedonia, and Thracia, running through territory that...
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Egnatia Odos or Egnatia Motorway (Greek: Εγνατία Οδός, often translated as Via Egnatia, code: A2) is the Greek part of European route . It is a motorway...
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Macedonia (Roman province) (section Via Egnatia)
bulwark protecting the Aegean region from attacks from the north. The Via Egnatia, which crossed the province from west to east was of great strategic...
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Appian Way (redirect from Via Appia)
towards Albania either by landing at present day Durrës through the Via Egnatia or near the ancient town of Apollonia and continue towards present day...
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while Cassius was on the south of the Via Egnatia. Antony arrived and positioned his army south of the Via Egnatia, while Octavian put his legions north...
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Egnatia Street or Egnatia Odos may refer to the following roads: Egnatia Odos (modern road), a motorway in Greece Via Egnatia, a Roman road Egnatia Street...
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An der Via Egnatia - Historisches und Heutiges über Stadt und Messe is a 1957 East German film. An der Via Egnatia – Historisches und Heutiges über Stadt...
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Highways in Greece (section A2 (Egnatia Odos))
been dubbed a modern Via Egnatia (in Greek, Egnatia Odos / Εγνατία Οδός). However, the parallel is not exact; the original Via Egnatia was much longer (1...
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reaching Constantinople (modern Istanbul). This road was connected with Via Egnatia by other roads: the road along the Axios (or Vardar) River, the road...
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Alexandroupolis (section Via Egnatia Run)
800m race for children and races 5 km, 10 km. The international race 'Via Egnatia Run' is an action of Evros Regional Unit which started in 2016 and is...
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situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the Egnatia motorway, a one-and-a-half-hour drive to Thessaloniki (160 kilometres (99...
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period, Heraclea was an important Episcopal seat and a waypoint on the Via Egnatia that once linked Byzantium with Rome through the Adriatic seaport of...
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Cassius occupied the south of the via Egnatia. Antony arrived shortly and positioned his army on the south of the via Egnatia, while Octavian put his legions...
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Egnatia Street (Greek: Οδός Εγνατίας) is the main commercial street in downtown Thessaloniki. The road is named for the Roman-era Via Egnatia which passed...
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Empire, Edessa benefited from its strategic location, controlling the Via Egnatia as it enters the Pindus mountains, and became a center of medieval Greek...
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part of the Roman Empire and its successor the Byzantine Empire. The Via Egnatia started in the city and led east across the fields, lowlands and highlands...
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Roman roads (redirect from Via publica)
Egypt: Via Hadriana In Mauretania Tingitana from Tingis southward (see: Roman roads in Morocco) Albania / North Macedonia / Greece / Turkey Via Egnatia (146...
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Antony in 41 BC. It grew to be an important trade hub located on the Via Egnatia, the road connecting Dyrrhachium with Byzantium, which facilitated trade...
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the Roman Republic reconstructed in the 2nd century BC as part of the Via Egnatia. Philip II endowed the city with important fortifications, which partially...
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Egnatia can refer to: Egnatia, Ioannina, municipality in the Ioannina regional unit Egnatia, Thessaloniki, in the Thessaloniki regional unit Via Egnatia...
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Brucida), capital of the Brygi, Illyria, E. of Lychnitis palus on the Via Egnatia, bet. Lychnidus (13) and Scirtiana (4). Presba." Epigraphical Database...
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13 August 2012. "Via Egnatia". Crandall University. Archived from the original on 20 March 2001. Retrieved 15 August 2012. "Via Egnatia: a journey across...
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near or within Dassaretia. In Roman times, it was located along the Via Egnatia, which connected the Adriatic port Dyrrachion (present-day Durrës) with...
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century. Their domain stretched across the Shkumbin valley and the old Via Egnatia road and reached east to today's Bitola. The first attested surname of...
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ancient Via Egnatia followed the river, giving it the role of a strategically important corridor between orient and occident. The Via Egnatia started...
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Ad Quintum was a mutatio ("changing station" or "way station") of the Via Egnatia, which connected western Illyria with eastern Thrace, from the two starting...
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Trieste, and continues the historical link between the Via Appia Traiana and the Via Egnatia. Trenitalia offers national rail transport in Italy and...
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of Volvi. Near the modern town, the ruins of a Roman station of the Via Egnatia are preserved which was called Pennana. According to a manuscript of...
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territories in Macedonia, Thessaly and Thrace. The control of the trade on the Via Egnatia enabled Ivan Asen to implement an ambitious building program in Tarnovo...
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before the arrival of Greek colonists, and later it became the Roman Via Egnatia. Before the foundation of Apollonia, the Greek goods that moved inland...
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