Via Militaris
Late Antiquity
.Via Militaris or Via Diagonalis was an ancient
.It was built in the 1st century AD. The length from Singidunum to Constantinople was 924 kilometres.[1]
During the first European conquests of Ottoman Turks orta kol (lit. middle arm) was following the Via Militaris.[2]
In May 2010, while work was done on the Pan-European Corridor X in Serbia, well-preserved remains of the road were excavated in Dimitrovgrad, Serbia. The eight-metre wide road was constructed from large blocks of stone and had two lanes.[3]
Key towns
| Ancient name | Location |
|---|---|
| Singidunum | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Gratiana | Dobra, Serbia |
| Viminacium | Kostolac , Serbia
|
| Naissus | Niš, Serbia |
| Remesiana | Bela Palanka, Serbia |
Serdica
|
Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Philippopolis | Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
| Hadrianopolis | Edirne, Turkey |
| Arcadiopolis | Lüleburgaz, Turkey |
| Byzantium | Istanbul, Turkey |
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References
- ^ A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples, p. 12, at Google Books
- ISBN 978-605-375-345-2p. 16. (in Turkish)
- ^ "Otkriveni ostaci antičkog puta Via militaris na Koridoru 10".
- Stephen Mitchell: The administration of Roman Asia from 133 BE to AD 250 in Lokale Autonomie und römische Ordnungsmacht in den kaiserzeitlichen Provinzen vom 1. bis 3. Jahrhundert (Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 1999, ISBN 3-486-56385-8, S. 18) (restricted online version (Google Books))
- Fred Singleton, Frederick Bernard Singleton: A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples. Cambridge University Press 1985,)
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