Jun 13, 2017 06:00:00

Is 'all roads leading to Rome' true? If you map the former main road, it will look like this

'All roads lead to Rome' is a metaphor for the many ways and ways to reach a goal, but during the Roman Empire, the capital city of Rome was connected to all roads throughout Europe. Is the etymology. So is 'all roads leading to Rome' true? So, Sasha Trubetskoy has created and published a map 'Roman Roads ' that deformed and wrote major roads throughout Europe.

Roman Roads – Sasha Trubetskoy

https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roman-roads-index/

This is Roman Roads. The main roads are colorfully written on the blank map, and it feels like an ancient European version of the route map.

If you look at the central part of the Italian peninsula, you can see that the main roads are certainly concentrated in 'Roma' (Roma), and that Rome during the Roman Empire was the center of the world. The red 'Via Appia' from Rome to Brindisi (now Brindisi) is the first Roman road to be constructed.

Mr. Trubetskoy wrote that he wrote the main roads extending from the major cities around the 2nd century during the heyday of the Roman Empire. You can see that the current Milan is the place name at that time, such as 'Mediolanum'.

Byzantium, which was relocated from Rome by Emperor Constantine in 330, is now the Turkish city of Istanbul. The surrounding area looks like this. In addition, Mr. Trubeskoy lists the names of roads according to historical facts as much as possible, but it seems that some roads whose names are unknown are named independently with reference to place names.

It seems that there was also a route from southern Spain through the Strait of Gibraltar to the continent of Africa, along the Mediterranean Sea in North Africa, and to Asia. By the way, from the traffic situation at that time, it was said that such a route that crossed the African continent was not common and used a ship.

If you donate a few dollars (hundreds of yen), you will receive an email with detailed PDF data that allows you to print this 'all roads lead to Rome' map as a poster.