Transport in Dacia - Cristian Dima

Merchants, traders, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, politicians yet also pilgrims, exiles, fugitives or adventurers travelled in and to the Greek colonies, the Roman provinces or the Barbarian territories for shorter or longer periods of time, travels that lasted from a few days to several weeks. For the Greco-Roman world, such manifestations are reported by various epigraphic sources, but especially by literary sources which record the movement and mobility of the populations as well as the cosmopolite character of large towns and trading centres, alluring various categories of individuals. Furthermore, feats and military campaigns were accounted and re-accounted by many of the classical authors, emperors or their supporters, documenting not a few times the practiced routes, the places where trading exchanges occurred, the army built roads etc. The number of itineraries, surviving the passage of time and presenting place names and distances in-between these on a given path, shows they were important in the Greco-Roman world indeed. (from the „Introduction”)

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