Via Egnatia

The Via Egnatia was a Roman road built in the later 2nd century BCE by the proconsul Gnaeus Egnatius after Macedonia became a province. It ran about 1,100 km from Dyrrachium on the Adriatic across the mountains of Illyria and Macedonia to Thessalonica, and was later extended to Byzantium. It joined the Via Appia across the Adriatic to link Rome with the east and remained a major route through the Byzantine period.