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Article: Egnatia Highway Across Northern Greece.
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- World Tunnelling
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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When Gaius Ignatius, a Roman proconsul in the second century BC, conceived and built a road through northern Greece to connect Asia with Europe, little could he have known that his ideas would survive more than two millennia.
The new road was named Via Egnatia in recognition of its promoter. It was an extension of the Via Appia, which already connected Rome with Brindisi on the Italian Adriatic coast.
The Via Egnatia started from Dyrrhachium and Apollonia on the Balkan coast of the Adriatic, where it narrows into the Ionian Sea. It then crossed Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and entered Greece through the area of Florina. It then ...