Roman roads in Turkey at a glance
Turkey has about 41,023 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 2,079 segments. That puts it 2nd among the 39 countries with Roman roads in the dataset. Only 6% of it is classed as certain; 92% is conjectured and 2% is hypothetical. 3 roads here have a well-known name, and the longest is Via Sebaste. 805 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.
- 41,023 kmof Roman road
- 2,079segments
- 3named roads
- 805Roman places
| How certain | Length (km) | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Certain | 2,267 | 6% |
| Conjectured | 37,840 | 92% |
| Hypothetical | 916 | 2% |
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 Turkey
The longest is the Via Sebaste, with 462 km of it in Turkey.
| Road | Length in Turkey (km) |
|---|---|
| Via Sebaste | 462 |
| Via Egnatia | 276 |
| Via Militaris | 171 |
Roman places in Turkey
805 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. These 60 are the most important. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.
- Sagalassos
- Heraclea ad Latmum
- Perge
- Prostanna
- Sidyma
- Dereağzı
- Ephesus
- Pergamum
- Arneai
- Myra
- Kyaneai
- Magnesia ad Maeandrum
- Mylasa
- Phellos
- Taouion
- Termessos
- Xanthos
- Andrapa
- Aspendos
- Cibyra
- Halicarnassus
- Selge
- Anazarbos
- Antiphellos
- Aphrodisias
- Iconium
- Isinda (Pisidian)
- Adana
- Aizanoi
- Hadrianoupolis
- Laodicea ad Lycum
- Polemonion
- Adramyttium
- Amorion
- Ariassos
- Assos
- Comama
- Constantinopolis
- Dorylaion
- Hierapolis
- Korydalla
- Labraunda
- Magnesia ad Sipylum
- Perre
- Pinara
- Arykanda
- Caunus
- Drepanon
- Hierapolis
- Melitene
- Myous
- Sillyon
- Telmessos
- Ancyra (Galatia)
- Apollonia ad Rhyndacum
- Diocaesarea
- Isaura (Nova)
- Kanytelis
- Keramos
- Kitanaura
Towns near Roman roads in Turkey
These are the larger towns in Turkey 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.
- Istanbul
- Ankara
- Bursa
- İzmir
- Gaziantep
Source
Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Turkey boundary. See all data sources and licences.
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Countries it shares roads with
- Greece (shared: Via Egnatia)
- Albania (shared: Via Egnatia)
- North Macedonia (shared: Via Egnatia)