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Via Caecilia, an ancient highroad of
Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
, which diverged from the Via Salaria at the 35th mile (56 km) from
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, and ran by Amiternum to the Adriatic coast, passing probably by Hadria (
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). A branch ran to Interamna Praetuttiorum (
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) and thence probably to the sea at Castrum Novum ( Giulianova), a distance of about 151 miles (243 km) from
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. It was probably constructed by Lucius Caecilius Metellus Diadematus (
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in 117 BC, censor 115). This cites: *
Christian Hülsen Christian Karl Friedrich Hülsen (born in Charlottenburg, 29 November 1858; died in Florence, Italy, on 19 January 1935) was a German architectural historian of the classical era who later changed to studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ...
, in ''Notizie degli Scavi'' (1896), 87 seq. *N. Persichetti in ''Römische Mitteilungen'' (1898), 193 seq.: (1902), 277 seq.


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