Strata Diocletiana

Access to the Principia in the Diocletian Town Fortress of Palmyra.

The Strata Diocletiana (Latin for "Road of Diocletian") was a fortified road that ran along the eastern desert border, the limes Arabicus, of the Roman Empire.^[1][2] As its name suggests and as it appears on milestones,^[3] it was constructed under Emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305 AD) as part of a wide-ranging fortification drive in the later Roman Empire.^[4] The strata was lined with a series of similarly-built rectangular forts (quadriburgia) situated at one day's march (ca. 20 Roman miles) from each other. It began at the southern bank of the river Euphrates and stretched south and west, passing east of Palmyra and Damascus down to northeast Arabia.

References

1. J. Brown; P. Gatier. "Places: 743967163 (Strata Diocletiana)". Pleiades. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
2. Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards; Cyril John Gadd; John Boardman; Alan Bowman; Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond; Frank William Walbank; Peter Garnsey; Averil Cameron; A. E. Astin; David Malcolm Lewis; Andrew William Lintott; John Anthony Crook; Edward Champlin; Elizabeth Rawson; Dominic Rathbone; Bryan Ward-Perkins; Michael Whitby (1970). The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12, The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337. Cambridge University Press. pp. 255–. ISBN 978-0-521-30199-2.
3. René Mouterde (1930). La Strata Diocletiana et ses bornes milliaires. Impr. catholique.
4. Fergus Millar The Roman Near East, 31 BC — AD 337, Harvard 1993. ISBN 0-674-77886-3