Roman roads in Albania

Roman roads in Albania at a glance

Albania has about 1,735 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 75 segments. That puts it 25th among the 39 countries with Roman roads in the dataset. Only 1% of it is classed as certain; almost all of it is conjectured. One road here has a well-known name, and the longest is Via Egnatia. 34 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

• 1,735 kmof Roman road
• 75segments
• 1named road
• 34Roman places

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

Named Roman roads in Albania

The longest is the Via Egnatia, with 173 km of it in Albania.

Roman places in Albania

34 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

• Phoinike
• Aulon
• Onchesmos
• Byllis
• Hadrianopolis
• Scodra
• Dyrr(h)achium
• Antipatreia
• Scampis
• Amantia
• Apollonia
• Bouthroton
• Clodiana
• Lissus
• Qare
• Ad Dianam
• Ad Picaria(s)
• Ad Quintum
• Akrolissos
• Apsos
• Candabia
• Chimaira
• Genesis
• Grandavia
• Hekatompedon
• Nikaia
• Palaeste
• Pelodes Limen
• Phoinike (Mesopotam)
• Pistum
• Prichhit
• Stefana
• Stefanaphana
• Treiecto

Towns near Roman roads in Albania

These are the larger towns in Albania that lie within 5 km of a Roman road line on the map (not counting the hypothetical lines). Being close to a Roman road does not make a town Roman, but it shows where the old routes still pass by today.

• Durrës
• Vlorë
• Elbasan
• Shkodër
• Lushnjë

Source

Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Albania boundary. See all data sources and licences.

Keep exploring

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• All named Roman roads

Countries it shares roads with

• Greece (shared: Via Egnatia)
• Turkey (shared: Via Egnatia)
• North Macedonia (shared: Via Egnatia)