Appia

Appia may refer to:

Places

  • Appian Way (In Italian and Latin: Via Appia), one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic
  • Appia (Phrygia), a town and bishopric of ancient Phrygia, now in Turkey
  • Aqua Appia, the first ancient Roman aqueduct, constructed in 312 BC

People

  • Appia gens, family at ancient Rome
  • Adolphe Appia (1862–1928), Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor
  • Dominique Appia (1926–2017), Swiss painter who lived and worked in the city of Geneva
  • Louis Appia (1818–1898), surgeon with special merit in military medicine
  • Saint Appia (1st century AD), wife of Philemon, recipient of a letter from Paul the Apostle

Nature

Other uses

  • Appia (software), free and open-source layered communication toolkit implemented in Java
  • Lancia Appia, car introduced in 1953 as a replacement for the Ardea, produced for 10 years

See also

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