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Via Egnatia was built between 146-120 BC in the ruins of an ancient pre-Roman road that ran by the countries of the Adriatic and Aegean reached. Later Evros spread from Byzantium and all the way from Rome to Constantinople, was named after Gnaeus Egnatius, who ordered its construction.

Via Egnatia is the first date of Strabo in "Geographica", between 40 BC and 10 AD. Also mentioned was a few years earlier in the year 59-58 BC C., in the work of Cicero and through militaris (Military Road), who arrived in Thessaloniki and was used by the speakers closer to the city. Part of the road, the section that runs between Neapolis (Kavala today) and Thessaloniki, was used by the apostle Paul, around 40 AD., during her trip to Greece.

Via Egnatia was a road of greater ARDS European ¬ standing. Was prepared and had signs, military camps, horse changing stations, bridges and out of cities, roads, side roads as much as Romans in Britain, Italy, Spain or Greece. In other words, was built according to specifications of the Romans. An example is given by Strabo, who mentioned that when the road reached the village, the Romans "cut the hills and curves of the road created soft, to allow passage of heavy trucks loaded.

The minimum width of ten o'clock the Via Egnatia Roman feet (about three meters), which increased to five meters, when the cutting of roads in major cities. Roman Travel inform us that there were signs that indicate distances between cities (civitates), inns (mansions), rest areas and the horse of changing seasons (mutatiae). From the Adriatic coast of Thessaloniki, the distance was about 400 km (535 feet Romans), and another 400 Evros Thessaloniki. The road had distance indicators, which means that had been measured based on a distance of 100 feet. For each mile, stelae were large indicating the distance and location of the specific location.

Via Egnatia was repaired several times until 300 AD In 6 AD 1270, it was mentioned as the road linking Durres to Constantinople, and until the 16th century, was the most used trade route for the passage of the tribes, religions, social classes, ideologies, customs, ethics, economics, attitudes and perceptions.

Along the Via Egnatia, met different groups of migrating Load men, artisans, peasants or workers from Western Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly etc, seeking better living conditions. Some groups of workers were construction, including all specialties, the builders and carpenters. These roving hordes were mostly seasonal workers, but some of the thieves were professional beggars, known as the Kravarites.

The Romans first used the Via Egnatia for military purposes, but soon became the main artery connecting the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea. Operated in parallel and competitive, it seems, the very old coastal road that connects the northern Italy Aegean to the Black Sea – the story repeats itself.

Via Egnatia played an important role in the early post-Byzantine. Painter and mosaic artist Part Constantinople in different directions, using all kinds of transportation by land or sea. Artists use the Via Egnatia to transport their works, whether manuscripts, portable icons, enamels, objects, gold, silver and bronze, or embroidery. Meanwhile, during the Byzantine period meso-and later, in Thessaloniki was a center of art creation and the starting point for most missions the populations of the north, west and south.

Today, modern Egnatia Odos through Epirus, Macedonia, and Thrace, from the port of Igoumenitsa, which is connected by ferry to Italy, Kipoi in Evros, on the Greek border of Turkey.

Nationally, Egnatia Odos will the door to new investment in transport (eg shopping centers), industry and tourism, and act as a hub for development ¬ tion in northern Greece. At European level, Egnatia connecting the industrial centers of the West with the East. Its construction will increase investment opportunities in transport, industry and tourism. Therefore, the road is financed largely by funds from erectile dysfunction. This means that, in Thessaloniki, which for 1500 years was the capital and commercial center of the region will regain its status commercial, cultural and financial, lost 90 years ago with the creation of national Balkan states. Egnatia Odos also functions as a main artery of transport routes around the peninsula of the Balkans and southeastern Europe. The motor is connected Routes to Europe IV (Berlin-Sofia-Thessaloniki), IX (Helsinki, Alexandroupolis) and X (Vienna-Belgrade-Thessaloniki).

Thanks to the Egnatia Odos motorway and its side roads, Greece will participate actively in the creation of new peripheral markets in the Balkans and effectively contribute to ED entrepreneurial initiatives, and from the Balkans. With the opening of the market in the Balkans, Greek companies will be able to export their products and services to new markets, as they have requested on several occasions in the past. The same roads also can be used to transport tourists to the Aegean coast, a popular tourist destination on the Balkan Peninsula and Central Europe, to benefit the economy.

The Egnatia motorway ll, which runs through from west Greece (Igoumenitsa) east, near the border Of Turkey, working on some very interesting parts of the country.

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