Roman roads in Libya at a glance
Libya has about 12,783 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 234 segments. That puts it 7th among the 39 countries with Roman roads in the dataset. Only 1% of it is classed as certain; 37% is conjectured and 62% is hypothetical. None of the roads here has a well-known name in the data, so the map shows unnamed Roman roads only. 165 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.
- 12,783 kmof Roman road
- 234segments
- 0named roads
- 165Roman places
| How certain | Length (km) | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Certain | 77.2 | 1% |
| Conjectured | 4,719 | 37% |
| Hypothetical | 7,987 | 62% |
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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Roman places in Libya
165 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. These 60 are the most important. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.
- Neapolis
- Cyrene
- Oea
- Apollonia
- Zacazama
- Berenice
- Kainopolis
- Abrotonum
- Auxiqua
- Casa Rimoniana
- Zaviet Msus
- Euphranta
- Phykous
- Tabuinati
- Thenadassa
- Anabucis
- Augila
- Baracum?
- Barke
- Cidamus
- Corniclanum
- Gheriat el-Garbia
- Giarabub
- Marada
- Mizda
- Murzuch
- Paliouros
- Praetorium
- Ptolemais
- Tagrifet
- Ampalaontes?
- Aptouchou Hieron?
- Arsinoe
- Balagrae
- Berge
- Bir ben Isa
- Chaminos
- Chorotus
- Derg
- Gheriat esh-Shergia
- Gholaia
- Gialo
- Lasamices?
- Limnias?
- Miceris
- Naustathmos
- Sugolin
- Thenteos
- Thubactis
- Tugulus
- Waddan
- Zuila
- el-Mechili
- Attici
- Darnis
- Garama Metropolis
- Ghirza
- Hadrianopolis
- Mesphe
- Pisida
Towns near Roman roads in Libya
These are the larger towns in Libya 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.
- Tripoli
- Benghazi
- Misratah
- Zliten
- Al Khums
Source
Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Libya boundary. See all data sources and licences.