Via Appia

road · 330 BC – 2100 AD · location approximate

An early Roman road (via publica) originating at Rome and terminating at Brundisium, the Via Appia was begun in the fourth century B.C. by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. The Latin author Statius described the Via Appia as "queen of the long roads".

Coordinates

41.64385, 13.06886

Also known as

Appia odos (grc), Via Appia Antica (it), Via Appia Antica (it), uia Appia; Via Appia (la), ἡ Ἀππία ὁδός (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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