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POSTUMIA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 197 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POSTUMIA, VIA , an See also:ancient highroad of See also:northern See also:Italy, constructed in 148 n.e. by the See also:consul Spurius Postumius See also:Albinus. It ran from the See also:coast at Genua through the mountains. to Dertona, Placentia (the termination of the Via Aemilia Lepidi) and See also:Cremona, just See also:east of the point where it crossed the Po. From Cremona the road ran eastward to Bedriacum, where it forked, one See also:branch See also:running to the See also:left , to See also:Verona and thence to the See also:Brenner, the other to the right to See also:Mantua, See also:Altinum and See also:Aquileia. The military occupation of See also:Liguria depended upon this road, and several of the more important towns owed their origin largely to it. Cremona was its central point, the distances being reckoned from it both eastwards and westwards. -. (T.

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