Appian Way (redirect from Via Appia)
The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected...
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The Via Traiana was an ancient Roman road. It was built by the emperor Trajan as an extension of the Via Appia from Beneventum, reaching Brundisium (Brindisi)...
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Roman roads (redirect from Via publica)
neighboring landowners. These roads bear the names of their constructors (e.g. Via Appia, Cassia, Flaminia). Roman roads were named after the censor who had ordered...
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North Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey as a continuation of the Via Appia. Starting at Dyrrachium (now Durrës) on the Adriatic Sea, the road followed...
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Pines of Rome (section "I pini della via Appia")
pini del Gianicolo" ("The Pines of the Janiculum") – Lento "I pini della via Appia" ("The Pines of the Appian Way") – Tempo di marcia Respighi completed...
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the path followed for a long stretch the Via Appia or the parallel Via Latina up to Benevento. From that town Via Traiana was taken up the Campanian Apennines...
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of Latina, located on the coast 56 km (35 mi) southeast of Rome on the Via Appia (76 km (47 mi) by rail). The site has been continuously occupied since...
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Appius Claudius Caecus, the same Roman censor who also built the important Via Appia. Gaius Plautius Venox chose the source of the aqueduct thus giving him...
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engineering difficulties that the arrow-straight Via Appia had to overcome. As a through-route, it preceded the Via Labicana, though the latter may have been...
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projects: the Appian Way (Latin: Via Appia), the first major Roman road, and the first aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Appia. He is the first Roman public figure...
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Appian Way Regional Park (section Via Latina Tombs)
Alban Hills. The new road is the Via Appia Nuova ("New Appian Way") as opposed to the old section, now known as Via Appia Antica. Mile 1 to Mile 10 falls...
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during the Roman Republic, where many historic Roman roads, such as the Via Appia, were (and still are) embellished with lines of stone pines. Stone pines...
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In 312 BC, Capua was connected with Rome by the construction of the Via Appia, the most important of the military highways of Italy. The gate by which...
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identified by the initials Q. IX. The name derives from the ancient roads Via Appia and Via Latina. It belongs to the Municipio VII and Municipio VIII. The origins...
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milestones. The Via Aurelia was constructed as a part of this road construction campaign, which began in 312 BC with the building of the Via Appia. Other roads...
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frazione in the municipality of Marino. Bovillae was a station on the Via Appia (which in 293 BC was already paved up to this point), located c. 11 miles...
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expanded to become the Aurelian Wall through which the Porta Appia admitted the Via Appia. The cemetery was now inside the city. The Appian gate today...
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dunes. The area amounts to about 80,000 hectares (200,000 acres). The Via Appia, a Roman military road constructed in 312 BC, crosses the inland side...
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Strada statale 7 Via Appia (SS 7) is a motorway that follows the path of the ancient Appian Way, connecting Rome to Brindisi. In the stretch between Cisterna...
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Catacombs of Rome (section Catacombs of via Anapo)
walls along main Roman roads, like the Via Appia, the Via Ostiense, the Via Labicana, the Via Tiburtina, and the Via Nomentana. Names of the catacombs –...
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Quo Vadis church (also known as Santa Maria in Palmis) on the Via Appia in Rome...
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Look up Appia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Appia may refer to: Appian Way (In Italian and Latin: Via Appia), one of the earliest and strategically...
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Via dei Cessati Spiriti is a street in Rome (Italy), established as a result of an adjustment of the route of Via Appia Nuova, which took place in the...
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along the Via Appia. After death, his status was raised to Divus and his father dedicated the Temple of Divus Romulus to him along the Via Sacra near...
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Tres Tabernae originated as a post station on the Appian Way (Latin: Via Appia), around the 3rd century BC. Here, the Christian saint Paul of Tarsus...
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Statali derive from ancient Roman roads, such as the Strada statale 7 Via Appia, which broadly follows the route of the Roman road of the same name. Strade...
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situated in the populous district of Borgo San Paolo near State Road 7 Via Appia, the Ugo Bazzi theater adjoins the church. Church of San Sebastiano, dedicated...
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center of town are Villa Altieri, at kilometre 25 of the State Road 7 Via Appia (363 m asl) and the Church of Stella (391 m asl). The hill town of Castel...
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emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia between AD 306 and 312. It is situated between the second and third miles of the Via Appia, between the basilica and...
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Martyrology in the following terms: "In the cemetery of Callistus on the Via Appia, Rome, burial of Saint Lucius, Pope, successor of Saint Cornelius. For...
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