Via Julia Augusta
The Via Julia Augusta (in Latin writes in capital letters VIA•IVLIA•AVGVSTA) is important a Roman Voie which connected Plaisance to the Var, while skirting the coasts of the Ligurie and those of the Riviera, in direction of the the Rhone. It thus made it possible to connect the Gaulle cisalpine to the transalpine Gaulle, by prolongant the Via Æmilia and the Via Aurelia.
Limited shortly after the completion of the conquest of the the Alpes-Maritimes against ligure tribes (in 14 av. J. - C.), between on July 1st -13 and the June 30th -12, by the emperor Auguste, (July being the month of Jules César and that August of Auguste, from where the name given to the way). This way begins again, essentially an existing route but its marking out by imposing terminals, numbered since Rome, do of them one of great work of the incipient Empire.
Another Roman way bearing the same name existed. This one started from Aquileia on the Adriatic coast, and traversed the current Austrian areas of Carinthie and the the Tyrol.
See too
Related articles
- Roman Way •
- Table of Peutinger • Route of Antonin
- List of Roman ways • Roman Ways as a Gaulle
- Fitted Brunehaut • littoral Roman Way • Way Domitienne • Via Julia Augusta • Via Augusta • Via Corsica • Via Clutched • Via Aurelia
External bond
- Official site of tourism
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