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Roman roads in Croatia

Romans were the most efficient and systematic road constructors in ancient times. They built about 100.000 km of roads from which only 14.000 km on the territory of modern state of Italy. Romans road constructors particularly improved the pavement construction. They paid special attention to the road foundation (base course) and probably because of that we still have so many remains of their roads all over ancient Roman Empire. Pavement construction of roman roads, speaking in the modern technical terms, was a type of rigid pavement construction. They also used in pavement construction their great invention, the cement mixture from the site near ancient town of Puzzoli in Italy. Pavement construction had maximum of four different layers called statumen, rudus, nucleus and summum dorsum. Depending on the road placement and importance in the road network, roads had very different geometrical characteristics (pavement construction, width etc.) The territory of the present state of Croatia was a part of the Roman Empire, thus the Roman legions and domestic people built the roads in this region as well. The Roman road network on the Croatian territory was very dense and was connecting the main settlements of that period in the coastal part and in the continental part of today’ s Croatia, like: Parenzium-Poreč, Pola-Pula, Iadera-Zadar, Salona_Solin, Narona-Vid, Epidaurum-Cavtat, Siscia-Sisak, Cibalia-Vinkovci etc. The main aim of this work is to, along with the concise presentation of the main constructing principles of the Roman roads, give review of presumable and confirmed Roman roads in Croatia and their importance in the entire road network of the Roman Empire.

roman roads; Croatia; Iliricum; pavement

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