Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Roman road
- Named after
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
- Country
- Italy
- Image
- Viae Flaminia Aemilia Postumia.jpg
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- Commons category
- Via Aemilia
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Schematic map of the Via Aemilia through the Roman Empire's Regio VIII Aemilia Route of Via Aemilia (in light brown, between Placentia and Ariminum) The Via Aemilia (Italian: Via Emilia, English: Aemilian Way) was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from Ariminum (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia (Piacenza) on the River Padus (Po). It was completed in 187 BC. The Via Aemilia connected at Rimini with the Via Flaminia, which had been completed 33 years earlier, to Rome.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Via Aemilia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.