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The Roman senator Gnaeus Egnatius received the title of proconsul after 146 BC and became governor of the province of Macedonia, linking his name with one of the main streets that crossed the Balkans, the Via Egnatia. This main trade route was the eastward extension of Trajan’s road (Via Traiana), which ran from Rome to the southeast and ended in Gnathia (Egnatia), between Bari and Brindisi, the major ports of the Adriatic.It passed close to old and new cities such as Lychnidos (Ohrid), Heraclea of ​​Lyngou, Pella and Thessaloniki, where it ended, at least during its first phase.