Roman roads in Cyprus at a glance
Cyprus has about 1,295 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 126 segments. That puts it 28th among the 39 countries with Roman roads in the dataset. Only 8% of it is classed as certain; 90% is conjectured and 2% is hypothetical. None of the roads here has a well-known name in the data, so the map shows unnamed Roman roads only. 41 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.
- 1,295 kmof Roman road
- 126segments
- 0named roads
- 41Roman places
| How certain | Length (km) | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Certain | 110 | 8% |
| Conjectured | 1,160 | 90% |
| Hypothetical | 25.1 | 2% |
Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.
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Roman places in Cyprus
41 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.
- Kourion
- Ag. Epiphanios
- Soloi
- Agios Georgios Pegeia
- Kition
- Tamassos
- Amathous
- Thronoi?
- Ag. Kononas
- Chyt(h)roi
- Olympos?
- Tremithous
- (Palai)Paphos
- Arsinoe
- Arsinoe?
- Galounia
- Keryn(e)ia
- Knidos
- Lakki
- Melabron?
- Khelones
- Ledroi
- Ag. Iakovos
- Alaas
- Arsinoe?
- Davlos
- Golgoi
- Hierokepis
- Kelliake?
- Komi
- Kopetra
- Koutsopetria
- Leukolla?
- Limenia?
- Mandres
- Melandryna
- Melouchea
- Neapolis
- Palio Khorio
- Panagia Aimatousa
- Phlason
Towns near Roman roads in Cyprus
These are the larger towns in Cyprus that lie within 5 km of a Roman road line on the map (not counting the hypothetical lines). Being close to a Roman road does not make a town Roman, but it shows where the old routes still pass by today.
- Nicosia
- Limassol
- Larnaca
- Stróvolos
- Famagusta
Source
Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Cyprus boundary. See all data sources and licences.