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Via Salaria – Roman road

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31 May 2022
Via Salaria is marked in red
Via Salaria is marked in red | EH101 from it

Via Salaria (literally “the salt road”) is one of the oldest roads in Italy and is even older than the Eternal City itself. The 242 km long road connected the capital of the Empire with the Adriatic Sea.

Via Salaria takes its name from the Latin word salis meaning “salt”; because this road was used to transport inland salt from coastal brines (this was done by ancient Sabines).

The Salt Road started just outside Porta Salaria in Rome and ended in Castrum Truentinum, next to Martinsicuro.

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Busts of Julius Caesar and Pompey the GreatGreat Roman civil war Roman saltSalt – expensive commodity in Roman times Gaul in the 1st century BCEGallic Wars Battle of Philippi in 42 BCEWars of second triumvirate
Sources
  • Ray Laurence, The roads of Roman Italy: mobility and cultural change, 1999

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