Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Belgium

A map of the 3,116 km of known Roman road in this country, drawn solid, dashed or dotted by how certain the route is.

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Key
  • 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
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

Roman roads in Belgium at a glance

Belgium has about 3,116 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 283 segments. That puts it 21st among the 39 countries with Roman roads in the dataset. Only 15% of it is classed as certain; 79% is conjectured and 7% is hypothetical. One road here has a well-known name, and the longest is Via Belgica. 50 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 3,116 kmof Roman road
  • 283segments
  • 1named road
  • 50Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain45515%
Conjectured2,45179%
Hypothetical2107%

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.

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Named Roman roads in Belgium

The longest is the Via Belgica, with 140 km of it in Belgium.

RoadLength in Belgium (km)
Via Belgica140

Roman places in Belgium

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

  • Ciney
  • Vervigium
  • Atuatuca
  • Brugge
  • Namur
  • Sauvenière
  • Asse
  • Kerkhove
  • Tienen
  • Turnacum
  • Cortoriacum
  • Elewijt
  • Flobecq
  • Viroviacum
  • Blicquy
  • Grobbendonk
  • Kester
  • Orolaunum
  • Taviers
  • Theux
  • Velzeke
  • Waasmünster
  • Condacum?
  • Florenville-Chameleux
  • Furfooz
  • Hofstade
  • Kruishoutem
  • Rumst
  • Amanium
  • Destelbergen-Gand
  • Ophoven
  • Anvers
  • Pommeroeul
  • Bergilers
  • Bléharies
  • Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
  • Geminiacum?
  • Givry
  • Howardries
  • Momalle
  • Morlanwelz
  • Mortsel
  • Nimy
  • Perniciacum?
  • Ploegsteert
  • Settlement at St-Mard
  • Taintignies
  • Tourinnes-St-Lambert
  • Vodgoriacum
  • Wyompont

Towns near Roman roads in Belgium

These are the larger towns in Belgium 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.

  • Antwerp
  • Gent
  • Liège
  • Brugge
  • Namur

Source

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

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