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Via Popillia (Capua to Rhegium) Roman road map

About 512 km long, also known as Via Popilia and Via Annia-Popilia. 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 Popillia (Capua to Rhegium)

The Via Popillia (Capua to Rhegium) is a Roman road about 512 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 32 separate segments within Italy. 15 Roman places lie along it, from Rhegion to Calatia.

None of the Via Popillia (Capua to Rhegium) 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.

  • 512 kmlength
  • 32segments
  • 15Roman places
  • 1country

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured512100%
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 Popillia (Capua to Rhegium) goes

CountryLength (km)
Italy511

Roman places along the Via Popillia (Capua to Rhegium)

In order along the route, from Rhegion to Calatia. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Rhegion
  2. Ad Columnam
  3. Emporion
  4. Hipponion
  5. Terina?
  6. Caprasia
  7. Interamnium
  8. Sala Consilina
  9. Ad Tana(g)rum
  10. Nares Lucanae
  11. Eburum
  12. Nuceria (Alfaterna)
  13. Nola
  14. Suessula
  15. Calatia

Modern towns near the route

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

  • Reggio Calabria (Italy)
  • Palmi (Italy)
  • Gioia Tauro (Italy)
  • Vibo Valentia (Italy)
  • Sambiase (Italy)
  • Cosenza (Italy)
  • Quattromiglia (Italy)
  • Castrovillari (Italy)
  • Eboli (Italy)
  • Battipaglia (Italy)
  • Salerno (Italy)
  • Cava Dè Tirreni (Italy)
  • Nocera Superiore (Italy)
  • Nocera Inferiore (Italy)
  • Pagani (Italy)
  • Sarno (Italy)
  • Nola (Italy)
  • Marigliano (Italy)
  • Maddaloni (Italy)

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 32 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] BAtlas 46 (12): Edlund-Berry, I. E. M. & Small, A. M. (2000). Map 46 Bruttii. in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, pp. 754-768. [2] BAtlas 45 (12): Edlund-Berry, I. E. M. & Small, A. M. (2000). Map 45 Tarentum. in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, pp. 730-753. [3] BAtlas 44 (8): Purcell, NIcholas (2000). Map 44 Latium-Campania. in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, pp. 699-729.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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