Roman roads in North Macedonia
The Via Egnatia crossed what is now North Macedonia on its way from the Adriatic to Thessalonica, passing Lake Ohrid and Heraclea Lyncestis near Bitola. It was the road that made the southern Balkans a corridor rather than a barrier, and it stayed in use through the Byzantine and Ottoman centuries.
What to see
Heraclea Lyncestis, on the edge of Bitola, sits directly on the Via Egnatia and keeps a theatre and a set of fifth-century basilica mosaics that are among the finest in the region. Stobi, further north at the meeting of the Erigon and the Axios, was the capital of Macedonia Secunda and preserves a theatre, streets and a synagogue beneath a later church.
- Mapped segments
- 33
- Surveyed length
- 1,240 km
- Named roads
- 1
Measured from the Itiner-e survey. Segments by certainty of line: conjectured 32, certain 1. A conjectured line is one inferred from evidence either side of it, not a road whose existence is doubted.
Named roads in North Macedonia
Roads the survey identifies by name here, with the length mapped within North Macedonia's modern borders. Most ran further.
- Via Egnatia 81 km
What kind of roads
- Main Road 20 segments
- Secondary Road 13 segments