Random Roman Canals (23 items)report

• [Construction date]: No later than 112 AD
  [Connection]: Nile–Red Sea (Ancient Suez Canal)
  [Canal type]: Inland to coast
  [Comment]: As the older Ptolemaic channel, which was the first to use locks, Trajan's canal linked Mediterranean and Red Sea not directly, but via the Nile. Unlike the Greek channel, though, which branched off the Pelusiac arm, the Roman canal started off the main branch of the Nile at Babylon, 60 km to the south. It joined the Ptolemaic dyke at Belbeis, eventually discharging into the Gulf of Suez at Arsinoe.
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• [Planning date]: c. 54–68 AD
  [Connection]: Isthmus of Corinth (modern Corinth Canal)
  [Canal type]: Coast to coast
  [Comment]: To avoid long and dangerous circumnavigation of the Peloponnese peninsula; several abandoned building projects in antiquity aimed at replacing Diolkos trackway; serious work begun by Nero, but aborted after his death
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• [Construction date]: 2nd century BC
  [Connection]: South of line Modena–Parma
  [Canal type]: Drainage
  [Comment]: Built by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus to drain lower Po area
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• [Construction date]: 2nd–6th century AD
  [Connection]: Danube bypass canal
  [Canal type]: Inland
  [Comment]: According to Procopius for allowing the safe passage past the remains of Trajan's Bridge which obstructed river navigation; dug on Serbian side (Kladovo)
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• [Construction date]: Late 1st century BC
  [Connection]: Ferrara–Padua
  [Canal type]: Inland to coast
  [Comment]: Built by Augustus to link Ravenna and Po estuary (Fossa Augusta)
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• [Construction date]: 47 AD
  [Connection]: Rhine–Meuse (Fossa Corbulonis)
  [Canal type]: Inland
  [Comment]: Allowed to navigate both rivers without sailing into North Sea; c. 35 km long
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