Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

The Roman road between Salodurum ( Solothurn ) and Vindonissa passed through the area, along the route now covered by the Bahnhofstrasse.

Gobannium was a Roman fort guarding the road along the valley of the River Usk which linked the legionary fortress of Burrium ( Usk ) and later Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, ( Caerleon ) in the south with Y Gaer, Brecon and Mid Wales.

The chief Roman road linking the provincial capitals of Cologne and Mainz cut right through the fort where it joined the fort's main road ( now, Römerstraße ).

On both sides of the road, the local settlement, Bonna, grew into a sizeable Roman town.

The luggage wagons, with a great amount of plunder, is said to have remained along the old Roman road, the main route from Poitiers to Bordeaux, to give protection to his weak right side.

Suetonius took a stand at an unidentified location, probably in the West Midlands somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street, in a defile with a wood behind him — but his men were heavily outnumbered.

Most historians favour a site in the West Midlands, somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

A Roman trade road between Salzburg and today ’ s Augsburg is said to have run through Dachau.

A little to the south of Fonni stood the Roman station of Sorabile, mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary as situated some 100 km from Caralis on the road to Olbia.

Remains of the Roman road, the bridge, a religious shrine, a Roman bath, a granary, some houses and the 4th-century castrum walls and gates, have been excavated.

According to legend, the Armenian-born Saint Servatius, bishop of Tongeren, died in Maastricht in 384 and was buried there along the Roman road, outside the castrum.

An audiovisual light show is presented nightly on the western side of the mountain ( access by car from the Arad road or by foot, down the mountain via the Roman ramp path ).

The Nuorese was crossed by a Roman road which connected Karalis ( Cagliari ) to Ulbia ( Olbia ).

This wealth was shown by the many monuments that were particularly imposing considering the relatively small size of the urban area: the forum, laid out in two terraces on both sides of the main road, was constructed in several phases between the reigns of Claudius and Antoninus Pius, and the theatre was enlarged and expanded in order to hold Roman games.

The inhabitants of Great Britain have been drinking ale since the Bronze Age, but it was with the arrival of the Romans and the establishment of the Roman road network that the first inns called tabernae, in which the traveller could obtain refreshment, began to appear.

Between the two ends of the range, the only passes worth mentioning are the Col de la Perche, between the valley of the Têt and the valley of the Segre, the Port d ' Envalira, the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees and one of the highest points of the European road network, and the Col de Somport or Port de Canfranc, where there were old Roman roads, but apparently, no modern highways.

A paved Roman road in Pompeii, Italy

The Roman road system spanned more than 400, 000 km of roads, including over 80, 500 km of paved roads.

A Bastarnae host, which had crossed the Danube to assist the Histrians, promptly attacked, surrounded and massacred the Roman infantry, capturing several of their vexilla ( military standards ).

At the same time, a tribal coalition under Cniva crossed the Roman frontier, probably advancing in two columns.

Cerberus (), or Kerberos, ( Greek form: Κέρβερος, ) in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound ( usually three-headed ) which guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping.

Secondly, an East Roman force had crossed the Danube under the command of another officer also named Aetius — who had participated in the Council of Chalcedon the previous year — and proceeded to defeat the Huns who had been left behind by Attila to safeguard their home territories.

The site of the founding of the Roman Kingdom and eventual Republic and Empire had a ford where the Tiber could be crossed.

* Battle of Mediolanum: A Germanic confederation, the Alamanni ( 300, 000 warriors ), who crossed the Alps are defeated by Roman legions under Gallienus near Mediolanum ( modern Milan ).

The shield with its crossed swords stands for the office of " Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire " inextricably joined by the Electorate, brought to Wittenberg by Rudolf I.

Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings — the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her — to Roman sculpture copying or improvising upon classical Greek models, by her seated pose, by her reflective gesture of leaning her cheek on her hand, and by her protectively crossed knees, reflecting her long chastity in Odysseus ' absence, an unusual pose in any other figure.

Effectively, Pliny crossed all the principal fields of the organization of the early Roman Empire.

Following the line of the Roman road, they crossed the ford over the Bannockburn towards King Robert's division at the opening of the New Park.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus commands the Roman army in Germania and crossed the Elbe.

Ιν 268, τhe Alamanni, who had been making incursions into Roman territory since the reign of Marcus Aurelius, had broken through the Roman frontier at the Danube and crossed the Alps, when the power struggles around Mediolanum ( Aureolus ' revolt, murder of Gallienus, confrontation between Aureolus and Claudius ) forced the Romans to denude the frontier of troops.

It was in an important position where a vital Roman road crossed the River Adda.

It was crossed by two important Roman roads, the via xxiv-xxix ( joining Astorga to laminium and via xxv ( which joined Emerita Augusta and Caesaraugusta ), and contained some important conurbations.

In 1189 the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa sought and obtained permission to lead his troops on the Third Crusade through the Byzantine Empire ; but he had no sooner crossed the border than Isaac, who had meanwhile sought an alliance with Saladin, threw every impediment in his way.

The troubles began in late 166 when the Langobardi ( the Lombards ) and Ubii crossed the Danube into Roman Moesia.

A few years later, the Marcomanni and Quadi, with assistance from other tribes that had crossed the Danube, overwhelmed a Roman army, passed over the plain at the head of the Adriatic, and put the town of Aquileia in northern Italy under siege.

A location for Antaeus somewhere beyond the Maghreb might be quite flexible in longitude: when the Roman commander Quintus Sertorius crossed from Hispania to North Africa, he was told by the residents of Tingis ( Tangier ), far to the west of Libya, that the gigantic remains of Antaeus would be found within a certain tumulus ; digging it open, his men found giant bones ; closing the site, Sertorius made propitiatory offerings and " helped to magnify the tomb's reputation ".

Once over 500 m long, the Roman Kemer Bridge crossed the upper reaches of the river near the present-day village of Kemer.

The Rhine frontier having been depleted of forces in order to defend Italy, leaving it defended by “ only the faith of the Germans and the ancient terror of the Roman name ,” as Gibbon put it, a massive number of Vandals, Alans, and Suevi from central Europe crossed the frozen-over and poorly-defended Rhine on 31 December 406.

Many Roman sarcophagi depict him as a winged boy, very much akin to Cupid: " Eros with crossed legs and torch reversed became the commonest of all symbols for Death ", observes Arthur Bernard Cook.