Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Greece

A map of the 11,445 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 Greece at a glance

Greece has about 11,445 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 895 segments. That puts it 9th among the 39 countries with Roman roads in the dataset. Only 3% of it is classed as certain; 95% is conjectured and 2% is hypothetical. One road here has a well-known name, and the longest is Via Egnatia. 581 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 11,445 kmof Roman road
  • 895segments
  • 1named road
  • 581Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain3303%
Conjectured10,84395%
Hypothetical2722%

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 Greece

The longest is the Via Egnatia, with 519 km of it in Greece.

RoadLength in Greece (km)
Via Egnatia519

Roman places in Greece

581 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. These 60 are the most important. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  • Geronthrai
  • Corinthus
  • Athenae
  • Sicyon
  • Thebai
  • Argos
  • Mantineia
  • Amyklai
  • Amphipolis
  • Hysiai
  • Kleonai
  • Phleious
  • Acharnai (N)
  • Alea
  • Epidauros
  • Eretria (Euboea)
  • Gortyn(a)
  • Pallene
  • Tanagra
  • Thessalonica
  • Demetrias (Magnesian)
  • Elateia
  • Hypata
  • Porthmos
  • Sparta
  • Tegea
  • Asea
  • Hysiai
  • Marathon
  • Megara
  • Nicopolis
  • Oichalia?
  • Orchomenos (Arcadia)
  • Samikon
  • Aigeira
  • Aptera
  • Aristonautai
  • Athenaion (fortification)
  • Belmina
  • Bembina
  • Besa
  • Elis (city)
  • Gyth(e)ion
  • Konope
  • Lamptrai Paraloi
  • Larissa
  • Megalopolis
  • Messene
  • Oropos
  • Pherai
  • Pherai
  • Rhamnous
  • Aigeai
  • Aigosthena
  • Ambracia
  • Antikyra
  • Azoros
  • Delphi
  • Dioryktos?
  • Epidauros Limera

Towns near Roman roads in Greece

These are the larger towns in Greece 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.

  • Athens
  • Thessaloníki
  • Pátra
  • Piraeus
  • Lárisa

Source

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

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