Roman roads in Croatia
Roman Dalmatia's roads had to cross one of the hardest coastlines in the empire, threading between the Adriatic and the Dinaric mountains. The network was laid out from Salona near Split, the provincial capital, with routes inland to the Sava valley and the Pannonian plain. Diocletian, born in the province, retired to his palace at Split at the end of one of them.
What to see
Diocletian's palace at Split is the single most complete piece of late Roman architecture anywhere: not a ruin but the core of a living city, with medieval and modern houses built into and onto the imperial walls. The amphitheatre at Pula, further north, is among the six largest surviving, and Salona outside Split was the provincial capital the Dalmatian road network was laid out from.
- Mapped segments
- 233
- Surveyed length
- 5,010 km
Measured from the Itiner-e survey. Segments by certainty of line: conjectured 228, hypothetical 4, certain 1. A conjectured line is one inferred from evidence either side of it, not a road whose existence is doubted.
What kind of roads
- Main Road 160 segments
- Secondary Road 73 segments