Via Egnatia

The Via Egnatia is the name of a Roman Road that connected ports on the Adriatic Sea with Byzantium. From west to east, a traveler from Rome (Italy – not on map) would head southeast overland to Brundisium (a port on the east coast of Italy). There they would sail east across the Adriatic Sea landing at either Apollonia or Dyrrhachium (both on map). From there they would head east on the “Via Egnatia” toward Byzantium — via Thessalonica, Amphipolis, Philippi, and Kypsela. In modern Albania Pekin on Via Egnatia (Roman bridge) and Ad Quintium (a well preserved rest stop).