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VIA AURELIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AURELIA  , an See also:ancient highroad of See also:Italy, the date of the construction of which is unknown . It ran from See also:Rome to See also:Alsium, where it reached the See also:sea, and thence along the See also:south-See also:west See also:coast of Italy, perhaps originally only as far as See also:Cosa, and was later extended to Vada Volaterrana, and in 109 B.C. to Genua and Dertona by means of the Via Aemilia, though a coast road as far as Genua at least must have existed See also:long before . The name is applied in the Antonine Itinerary to these extensions, and even to the prolongation to See also:Arles . Its See also:line is in the See also:main closely followed by the See also:modern coast highroad; cf., however, for the See also:section between Cosa and Populonia, O . Cuntz in Jahreshefte See also:des Ostem See also:arch . Instituts, vii . (1904), 54• (T .

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