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Via Aquitania Roman road map

About 395 km long. The red line is the route recorded in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads.

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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.

About the Via Aquitania

The Via Aquitania is a Roman road about 395 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 13 separate segments within France. 8 Roman places lie along it, from Col. Narbo Martius to Burdigala.

None of the Via Aquitania is classed as certain: almost all of it is conjectured, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route.

  • 395 kmlength
  • 13segments
  • 8Roman places
  • 1country

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured395100%
Hypothetical00%

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.

Where the Via Aquitania goes

CountryLength (km)
France395

Roman places along the Via Aquitania

In order along the route, from Col. Narbo Martius to Burdigala. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Col. Narbo Martius
  2. Carcas(s)o
  3. Tolosa
  4. Lactora
  5. Aginnum
  6. La Peyrelongue
  7. Alingo
  8. Burdigala

Modern towns near the route

These towns and cities are within about 4 km of the road, in route order.

  • Narbonne (France)
  • Carcassonne (France)
  • Toulouse (France)
  • Blagnac (France)
  • Agen (France)
  • Villenave-d'Ornon (France)
  • Gradignan (France)
  • Bègles (France)
  • Talence (France)
  • Floirac (France)
  • Bordeaux (France)
  • Le Bouscat (France)
  • Cenon (France)

Source

Road name as recorded in the Itinerary field of Itiner-e (version 2024 1.3, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17122148). Sources most often cited by its 13 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] CIL 17.2 (13): Walser, Gerold (1986). Miliaria provinciarum Narbonensis Galliarum Germaniarum. de Gruyter, Berlin and New York. [2] Sivan 1997 (6): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file. [3] Passelac 2016 (4): Passelac, Michel (2016). La voie d’Aquitaine entre Tolosa (Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) et Carcaso (Carcassonne, Aude) : stations et sites de bord de route. in Gallia 73, pp. 253-273.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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