Via Gemina

The Via Gemina was the Roman road that connected Aquileia and Emona (modern Ljubljana). It was built by the Legio XIII Gemina in AD 14 . The name "twin road" arose from the fact that it departed from Aquileia together with the Via Postumia .

The road ran from Aquileia past Tergeste (Trieste) and followed the Vipava valley between the confluence of the Vipava river in the Soča near Pons Sonti (Gradisca d'Isonzo) and the later town of Vipava through the karst district to Nauportus (Oberlaibach) and Emona (Ljubljana). It forms the first route of the Amber Road , which left the Roman territory at Carnuntum .

According to Tacitus, Nauportus was plundered by road builders in AD 14.

Individual evidence

^ Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites : Aquileia Udine
↑ Pais 216 = InscrAqu-2, 2901 = AE 2007, +00264 [1]
^ CIL V, 7989 , in Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites .
↑ Tacitus Annales , 1.20: “ Interea manipuli ante coeptam seditionem Nauportum missi ob itinera et pontes et alios usus, postquam turbatum in castris accepere, vexilla convellunt direptisque proximis vicis ipsoque Nauporto, quod municipii instar erat,… ”.

[1] Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites : Aquileia Udine

[2] Pais 216 = InscrAqu-2, 2901 = AE 2007, +00264 [1]

[3] CIL V, 7989 , in Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites .

[4] Tacitus Annales , 1.20: “ Interea manipuli ante coeptam seditionem Nauportum missi ob itinera et pontes et alios usus, postquam turbatum in castris accepere, vexilla convellunt direptisque proximis vicis ipsoque Nauporto, quod municipii instar erat,… ”.