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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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