Via Militaris

 ( Militaris ) 

[[File:Balkans 6th century.svg|thumb|right|360px|The northern Balkans, including the ''Via Militaris'', in [[Late Antiquity]].]]
     

Via Militaris or Via Diagonalis was an ancient Roman road, starting from Singidunum (today the capital Belgrade), passing by Danube coast to Viminacium (near modern Kostolac), through Naissus (modern Niš), Serdica (modern Sofia), Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv), Adrianopolis (modern Edirne in Turkish Thrace), and reaching Constantinople (modern Istanbul). This road was connected with Via Egnatia by other roads: the road along the Axios (or Vardar) River, the road from Serdica to Thessalonica along the Strymon (or Struma) River, and the road from Philippopolis to Philippi. During the Byzantine era it was also known as the Constantinople Road.

Anne Kolb (2019). 9783110636314, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. . ISBN 9783110636314

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History It was built in the 1st century AD. The length from Singidunum to Constantinople was 924 kilometres.

During the first European conquests of Ottoman Empire orta kol (lit. middle arm) was following the Via Militaris.Kılıç, Ayşegül; Bir Osmanlı Akın Beyi Gazi Evrenos Bey İthaki Yay. Istanbul 2014, p. 16. (in Turkish) In the Middle Ages it was known in Serbian as the Imperial road (царски пут) or Morava road (Моравски пут), while during the Ottoman period as the Constantinople or Tsarigrad road () or Imperial road (царска џада, from Turkish cadde).

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Archaeology In May 2010, while work was done on the Pan-European Corridor X in Serbia, well-preserved remains of the road were excavated in Dimitrovgrad, Serbia. The eight-metre wide road was constructed from large blocks of stone and had two lanes.

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Key towns

Singidunum	Belgrade, Serbia
Gratiana	Dobra, Serbia
Viminacium	Kostolac, Serbia
Naissus	Niš, Serbia
Remesiana	Bela Palanka, Serbia
Serdica	Sofia, Bulgaria
Philippopolis	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Hadrianopolis	Edirne, Turkey
Arcadiopolis	Lüleburgaz, Turkey
Byzantium	Istanbul, Turkey

• Stephen Mitchell: The administration of Roman Asia from 133 BE to AD 250 in Lokale Autonomie und römische Ordnungsmacht in den kaiserzeitlichen Provinzen vom 1. bis 3. Jahrhundert (Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 1999, , S. 18) ()
• Fred Singleton, Frederick Bernard Singleton: A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples. Cambridge University Press 1985,, S. 12 )

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