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These roads bear the names of their constructors (e.g. Via Appia, Cassia, Flaminia). [9] Roman roads were named after the censor who had ordered their construction or reconstruction. The same person often served afterwards as consul, but the road name is dated to his term as censor.
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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the road fell out of use; Pope Pius VI ordered its restoration. A new Appian Way was built in parallel with the old one in 1784 as far as the Alban Hills region. The new road is the Via Appia Nuova ("New Appian Way") as opposed to the old section, now known as Via Appia Antica.
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Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...
It provides the first physical proof sections of the Roman road survive beneath the modern road.
Schematic map of the Via Aemilia through the Roman Empire's Regio VIII Aemilia Route of Via Aemilia (in light brown, between Placentia and Ariminum). The Via Aemilia (Italian: Via Emilia, English: Aemilian Way) was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from Ariminum (), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia on the River Padus ().
A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” archaeological discovery.. The 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street ...