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VALERIA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 858 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VALERIA, VIA , an See also:ancient highroad of See also:Italy, the continuation See also:north-eastwards of the Via See also:Tiburtina (q.v.). It probably owed its origin to M. See also:Valerius Messalla, See also:censor in 154 B.C. It ran first up the Anio valley past See also:Varia (q.v.), and then, abandoning it at the 36th mile, where the Via Sublacensis diverged, ascended to Carseoli (q.v.), and then again to the lofty pass of See also:Monte Bove (4003 ft.), whence it descended again to the valley occupied by the Lago di See also:Fucino (q.v.). It is doubtful whether it ran farther than the eastern point of the territory of the See also:Marsi at Cerfennia, to the N.E. of the Lacus Fucinus, before the See also:time of See also:Claudius. Stlabo states that in his See also:day it went as far as See also:Corfinium, and this important See also:place must have been in some way accessible from See also:Rome, but probably, beyond Cerfennia, only by a track. The difficult route from Cerfennia to the valley of the Aternus—a drop of nearly moo ft., involving too the See also:crossing of the See also:main See also:ridge of the See also:Apennines(3675 ft.) by the Monslmeus(mod. Forca Caruso)—was, however, probably not made into a highroad until Claudius's reign: one of his milestones (Corp. Inscr. See also:Lat. ix. 5973) states that he in A.D. 48–49 made the Via Claudia Valeria from Cerfennia to the mouth of the Aternus (mod.

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Pescara). He also constructed a road, the Via Claudia Nova, connecting the Via See also:Salaria, which it See also:left at Foruli (mod. Civitatomassa, near See also:Amiternum) with the Via Valeria near the See also:modern Popoli. This road was continued See also:south (we do not know by whom or when) to See also:Aesernia. From Popoli the road followed the valley of the Atemus to its mouth, and there joined the See also:coast-road at Pescara. The modern railway from Rome to Castellammare Adriatico follows closely the See also:line of the Via Valeria. See E. Albertini in Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome (1907), 463 sqq. (T.

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