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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 October 2024. Type of aqueduct built in ancient Rome See also: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire The multiple arches of the Pont du Gard in Roman Gaul (modern-day southern France). The upper tier encloses an aqueduct that carried water to Nimes in Roman times; its lower tier was expanded in the ...
Athens, Greece Long Walls Athens, Greece Late Roman Athens, Greece Corinth: Corinthia, Greece Chalcis: Chalcis, Greece Aqueduct of Kavala: Kavala, Greece 16th century Mytilene: Lesbos, Greece Nicopolis: Epirus, Greece Patras: Greece Aqua Anio Vetus [4] Pleiades, Italy 330 BC
built in 1870; source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome; length: 56 miles (90 km); underground for 50 miles (80 km) in the channel of Aqua Marcia, then on arches for 6 miles (9.7 km) to its terminus at the Fountain of the Naiads on the Viminal Hill; Acqua Vergine Nuova. built in 1937; source: springs in Salone, east of Rome
The Aqua Anio Vetus was a Roman aqueduct, commissioned in 272 BC by censor Manius Curius Dentatus and funded from the war booty seized after the victory against Pyrrhus of Epirus [1]: 29 [2]: 148 . The aqueduct was 64 km (40 mi) long [ 3 ] : 347 , approximately four times as long as Aqua Appia , and its discharge of 175,920 m 3 (46,470,000 US ...
Route of the Aqua Appia Map of Aqua Appia in Rome. The Aqua Appia was the first Roman aqueduct [1]: 47 , and its construction was begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus [2] [3]: 148 [4]: 338-9 [5]: 23 , who also built the important Via Appia.
Map of the Aqua Alexandrina outside of Rome Aqua Alexandrina in Rome. The aqueduct was constructed in AD 226 as the last of the eleven ancient aqueducts of Rome.It was built under the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus to supply his enlargement of the Baths of Nero, which were renamed Thermae Alexandrinae.
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Route of the Aqua Claudia. Aqua Claudia ("the Claudian water") was an ancient Roman aqueduct that, like the Aqua Anio Novus, was begun by Emperor Caligula (37–41 AD) in 38 AD and finished by Emperor Claudius (41–54 AD) in 52 AD.