• The Roads of the Roman Empire connected the Roman Provinces with each other and with Rome.

The Provinces:

Arabia

• Via Traiana Nova

Africa

• North African Roman Road

Belgium

• Via Belgica

Britannia

• Roman Roads of Britannia

Corsica

• Via Corsica

Croatia

• Via Argentaria

Egypt

• North African Roman Road
• Via Hadriana
• Via Maris
• Via Phorphyritis
• Coptos to Myos Hormos Roman Road
• Via Traiana Nova

France

• Roman Roads of Gaul
  • Via Agrippa
  • Via Antonina
  • Via Aquitania
  • Via Belgica
  • Chaussee Jules Cesar
  • Via Cottiae Linking Valence with Turin.
  • Via Domitia
  • Via Julia Augusta
  • A Road linking Toulouse to Lyon
  • The Kiem was a road linking Rheims with Trier
  • Roman Roads of Paris

Germany

• Kiem
  • From Trier to Rheims.
• Via Ausonia
  • From Trier to Bingen.
• Via Belgica
  • From Cologne to Boulogne and Amiens.
• Rhine Military Road
  • Followed the Rhine to Raetia.
  • Xanten–Cologne–Mainz-Lorch-Augsburg–Regensburg

Greece

• Via Egnatia

Judaea

• Via Maris
  • Also, a Roman Road network connected the cities of the Decapolis

Portugal

• Via Lusitanorum

Spain

• Via Augusta
• Via de la Plata
• Via Lusitanorum

Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey

• Via Militaris

Switzerland

• Via Claudia Augusta

Syria

• Via Maris
• Via Traiana Nova

Turkey

• A southern coastal road:
  • Byzantium–Chalcedon–Nicomedia–Cyzicus–Pergamon–Smyrna–Ephesus-Miletus
• A northern coastal road:
  • Byzantium–Chalcedon–Nicomedia-Heraclea-Sinope-Trabzon
• Inland Roads:
  • Ephesus-Apamea-Ankara
  • Chalcedon–Nicomedia–Nicaea–Ankara
  • Ankara–Tarsus
  • Ankara-Amasea-Satala–Trabzon
  • Ankara–Caesarea–Melitene

The Danube River

• The Danube Way
  • The road followed the Danube linking all the forts between Raetia (Switzerland) and the Danube Delta on the Black Sea.

The Rhine River

• A Roman Road
  • The road followed the Rhine linking all the forts between Raetia (Switzerland) and the North Sea.

Other Roads in the Ancient World

Persian Royal Road

• The Persian Empire was controlled via the Persian Royal Road which ran from Susa in the Persian Gulf to Sardis on the Aegean. It consisted of way stations and relays for both horse and foot messengers.

King's Highway

• Mentioned in The Bible Book of Numbers. Chapter 20: verses 17-21
• This Caravan Road ran inland from Heliopolis in Egypt via Arabia Petraea and Damascus and Palmyra in Syria to the Euphrates.

Via Maris

• The Via Maris ran round the coast from Syria, to Egypt via Judaea using the Megiddo Pass.
• ‘Via Maris’ means ‘Way of the Sea’ in Latin. It formed part of the coastal road around the eastern Mediterranean.