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Encyclopedia > Via Cassia
Route of Via Cassia (in green).
Route of Via Cassia (in green).

The Via Cassia was an important Roman road striking out of the Via Flaminia near the Milvian Bridge in the immediate vicinity of Rome and, passing not far from Veii traversed Etruria. The Via Cassia passed through Baccanae, Sutrium, Vulsinii, Clusium, Arretium, Florentia, Pistoria, and Luca, joining the Via Aurelia at Luna. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (751x663, 203 KB) [edit] Summary nl: Zelfgemaakt op basis van Image:Map of Italy (w. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (751x663, 203 KB) [edit] Summary nl: Zelfgemaakt op basis van Image:Map of Italy (w. ... For the one-off TV Drama, see Roman Road (TV Drama) A Roman road in Pompeii. ... The Via Flaminia was a Roman road leading from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini), and was the most important route to the north. ... Ponte Milvio, a bridge on Tiber. ... Veii - or Veius - was in ancient times, an important Etrurian city 18 km NNW of Rome, Italy. ... The area covered by the Etruscan civilzation. ... Sutri (ancient Sutrium) is a town in the province of Viterbo, about 50 km from Rome. ... Bolsena is a town and comune of Italy, in the province of Viterbo in northern Lazio, 43°39N 11°59E, at 350 meters (1148 ft) above sea-level on the eastern shore of Lake Bolsena. ... Ancient Clusium was a Roman city, one of a succession found at the site. ... Arezzo (Latin Arretium) is an old city in central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. ... Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... Pistoia (ancient Pistoria) is a city in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km (18 mi) west and north of Florence. ... Chrono Trigger character, see Lucca (Chrono Trigger). ... Via Aurelia was the Roman road which passed out of ancient Rome through the Porta Aurelia in the Aurelian Walls and ran to the coast a little southeast of modern Palidoro and then followed a coastal route north to Vada Volaterrana. ... The Luni is a river of western Rajasthan state, India. ...


Via Amerina

The Via Amerina was a road that broke off from the Via Cassia near Baccanae, and held north through Falerii, Tuder, and Perusia, rejoining the Via Cassia at Clusium. When the incursions of Faroald, the Lombard Duke of Spoleto, cut the Via Flaminia, the lifeline between Rome and Ravenna, the Via Amerina was improved and fortified at intervals, works that represented some of the last road-building carried out in Italy in Late Antiquity. As the new military and strategiic route, the Via Amerina "became the communications core of Imperial Italy and the chief support to the claim that imperial Italy was still extant."[1] Panorama of Todi. ... Location of Perugia in Italy Coordinates: , Country Region Province Province of Perugia Government  - Mayor Renato Locchi Area  - City 449 km²  (1,165 sq mi) Elevation 493 m (1,617 ft) Population (July 2006)[1]  - City 161,390  - Density 359/km² (929. ... Ancient Clusium was a Roman city, one of a succession found at the site. ... Faroald I (also spelled Faruald) (died 591 or 592) was the first duke of Spoleto from about 570. ... The independent Duchy of Spoleto in southern Italy was a Lombard territory founded about 570 by the Lombard dux Faroald. ... The Via Flaminia was a Roman road leading from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini), and was the most important route to the north. ... Late Antiquity is a rough periodization (c. ...


Notes

  1. ^ Jan T. Hallenbeck, "Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth Century" Transactions of the American Philosophical Society New Series 72.4 (1982 pp. 1-186) p 8.

External link

  • LacusCurtius - "Viae" (Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities 1875)


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Via Cassia - LoveToKnow 1911 (115 words)
The date of its construction is uncertain: it cannot have been earlier than 187 B.C., 2 when the consul C. Flaminius constructed a road from Bononia to Arretium (which must have coincided with the portion of the later Via Cassia).
It is not, it is true, mentioned by any ancient authorities before the time of Cicero, who in 45 B.C. speaks of the existence of three roads from Rome to Mutina, the Flaminia, the Aurelia and the Cassia.
A milestone of A.D. 124 mentions repairs to the road made by Hadrian from the boundary of the territory of Clusium to Florence, a distance of 86 m.
Roman road (287 words)
Via Aquitania[?], from Narbonne, where it connected to the Via Domitia, to the Atlantic Ocean across Toulouse and Bordeaux,
Via Domitia (118 BC), from Nimes to the Pyrenees, where it joins to the Via Augusta[?] at the Col de Panissars[?].
Via Augusta, from Cadiz to the Pyrenees, where it joins to the Via Domitia at the Coll de Panissars.
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