List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire

This is a list of aqueducts in the Roman Empire. For a more complete list of known and possible Roman aqueducts and their bridges see List of Roman bridges.[1][2]

Aqueducts in the Roman Empire

Name Location Image Coordinates Length x Height Construction Started Service Started Demolition or Decommission Influencer
Plovdiv Bulgaria, Plovdiv 42°7′50″N 24°43′25″E / 42.13056°N 24.72361°E / 42.13056; 24.72361 30 km x
Plavno Polje[3] Croatia 32.6km x 0.296m AD 1
Diocletianus Croatia, Solin
Clausonnes France, Antibes
Barbegal France, Arles
Aqueduct of the Gier France, Lyon
Luynes, Indre-et-Loire France, Tours
Nîmes France 50km AD 60
Fréjus France 40km AD 50
Aqueduct from Gorze to Metz France, Metz
Eifel Germany 50°30′46″N 6°36′39″E / 50.5127°N 6.6108°E / 50.5127; 6.6108 130km x 1 metre AD 80
Hadrian Greece, Argos
Peisistratid Greece, Athens
Long Walls Greece, Athens
Late Roman Greece, Athens
Corinth Greece, Corinthia
Kavala Greece, Kavala
Mytilene Greece, Lesbos
Nicopolis Greece, Epirus
Patras Greece
Aqua Anio Vetus[4] Italy, Pleiades 330 BC AD 640
Aqua Augusta Italy, Naples 96km
Aqua Marcia – pictured is Aqua Marcia near Tivoli, Italy Italy, Rome 298,556′ 144 BC 140 BC
Aqua Tepula[5] Italy, Rome 126 BC 127 BC Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla
Aqua Anio Novus Italy, horti Epaphroditiani[5]
Aqua Alexandrina Italy, Rome AD 226
Aqua Alsietina Italy, Rome
Aqua Appia Italy, Rome 312 BC
Aqua Claudia – Pictured are the remains of aqueducts Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus at Porta Maggiore in Rome, integrated into the Aurelian Wall as a gate in AD 271 Italy, Rome
Aqua Virgo Italy, Rome
Minturno Italy
Ponte delle Torri Italy, Spoleto
Pont d'Aël Italy, Aosta Valley
Termini Imerese Italy, Sicily
Caesarea Maritima Israel
Aqueduct of Zubaida Lebanon, Beirut
Aqueduct of Tyre Lebanon, Tyre
Aqueduct of Msaylha Lebanon, Batroun
Aqueduct of Nahr Ibrahim Lebanon, Jbeil
Aqueduto de São Sebastião Portugal, Coimbra
Skopje Aqueduct Macedonia
Almuñécar[lower-alpha 1] Spain
Albarracin-Gea-Cella Spain
Aqua Nova Domitiana Augusta Spain
Barcino Spain
Bejís Spain
Caños de Carmona Spain
Cordoba (Aqua Fontis Aureae) Spain
Itálica Spain
Las Medulas Spain
Les Ferreres Spain, Tarragona
Los Banales Spain
Los Milagros Spain, Mérida
Lugo Spain
Noain Spain, Pamplona, Navarra
Onuba Aestuaria Spain
Peña Cortada Spain
Rabo de Buey-San Lázaro Spain
Aqueduct of Segovia Spain, Segovia ? x 28m
Toledo Spain, Toledo
Valdepuentes Spain
Aqueduct of Hadrian Tunisia
Valens Turkey, Istanbul
Aspendos Turkey, Antalya Province
Lamas Turkey, Mersin Province
Laodicea on the Lycus Turkey
Phaselis Turkey
Dolaucothi Gold Mines United Kingdom, Wales, Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire
Durnovaria United Kingdom, Dorchester, Dorset
Longovicium United Kingdom, Lanchester

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Almuñécar consists of 5 above ground aqueducts – 4 still in use

References

  1. ↑ "Website on Roman aqueducts". www.romanaqueducts.info. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Farkas, Maria. "Home". www.romaq.org. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "SOCIETÀ FRIULANA DI ARCHEOLOGIA" (PDF): 264. and the Plavno polje – Burnum aqueduct
  4. ↑ Quilici, L; Quilici Gigli, S. "Aqua Anio Vetus".
  5. 1 2 "Aqua Tepula".

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