Roman roads in Bulgaria
Bulgaria sits on the Roman route between the Danube frontier and the Aegean. The Via Militaris, the military road from Singidunum at Belgrade through Serdica at Sofia to Byzantium, was the empire's main artery into the eastern Balkans, and the road along the Danube supplied the legionary fortresses that held the river line for four centuries.
What to see
Plovdiv, ancient Philippopolis, sits on the Via Militaris and keeps a Roman theatre still used for performances, along with a stadium buried under the modern shopping street. At Hisarya the town walls survive to their full height in places, and the Roman road stations along the route to Byzantium are traceable across the Thracian plain.
- Mapped segments
- 436
- Surveyed length
- 9,450 km
Measured from the Itiner-e survey. Segments by certainty of line: conjectured 407, hypothetical 15, certain 14. A conjectured line is one inferred from evidence either side of it, not a road whose existence is doubted.
What kind of roads
- Secondary Road 314 segments
- Main Road 122 segments