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What was the Via Traiana and where did it lead?
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Trajan, detail of a marble bust; in the British Museum.
The Via Traiana was a Roman road constructed by Emperor Trajan to improve Italy's infrastructure. It served as a new, more efficient main thoroughfare between Beneventum and Brundisium, effectively replacing the Via Appia for travel between those two cities.1
It is important to distinguish this Italian road from the Via Nova Traiana (also known as the Kingās Highway), which Trajan commissioned in the East to link the city of Bostra with the Red Sea.2