Roman roads

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Roman roads were an extensive and durable network of paved routes that enabled efficient military movement, trade, and communication across the vast territories of the Roman Empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient road network
infrastructure of the Roman Empire
transportation system
builtBy Roman engineers
Roman legion
surface form: Roman legions

local labor under Roman authority
characteristic built with multiple layers of materials
cambered surface for drainage
ditches or drainage on sides
durability
milestones along routes
paved with stone in many sections
relatively straight alignments
connected Rome
major cities of the empire
military forts
ports
provincial capitals
constructionMethod bridges and causeways over obstacles
layered foundation of stones and gravel
use of surveying instruments for alignment
hasPart Fosse Way
Stane Street
Via Aemilia
Via Appia
Via Aurelia
Via Egnatia
Via Flaminia
Watling Street
influenced medieval European road networks
modern European road routes
locatedIn Asia Minor
Great Britain
surface form: Britannia

Gaul
Iberian Peninsula
surface form: Hispania

Italy
North Africa
Roman Empire
Balkans
surface form: the Balkans

Middle East
surface form: the Near East
maintainedBy Roman state
local municipalities
regulatedBy Roman law
timePeriod Roman Empire
Roman Republic
usedBy Roman Empire
Roman merchants
Roman navy
surface form: Roman military
usedFor administration
communication
imperial control
military movement
tax collection
trade

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Roman Empire notableInfrastructure Roman roads
Rome contains Roman roads
this entity surface form: Appian Way
Via Appia partOf Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network
Watling Street partOf Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network in Britain
Via Egnatia partOf Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network
Aquincum hasRoadConnection Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network in Pannonia
Gallia Narbonensis integratedInto Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network
Hadrianopolis connectedBy Roman roads
Luna connectedBy Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network of northern Italy
Appian Way partOf Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network
regina viarum relatedConcept Roman roads
subject surface form: Regina viarum
Itinerary II of the Antonine Itinerary relatedTo Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road system
Roman state hasInfrastructure Roman roads
Milliarium Aureum associatedWith Roman roads
this entity surface form: Viae publicae (Roman public roads)
Via Militaris partOf Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network
Roman Spain infrastructure Roman roads
Barcino wasConnectedBy Roman roads
Tynedale hasHeritage Roman roads
Tiberius Bridge wasPartOf Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network in northern Italy
modern A29 road hasHistoricalBasis Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network
Roman Ermine Street partOf Roman roads
subject surface form: Ermine Street
this entity surface form: Roman road network in Britain
Anxur partOf Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network
Roman Sardinia integratedInto Roman roads
this entity surface form: Roman road network