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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
  • Aqua Appia, the first ancient Roman aqueduct, constructed in 312 BC

People

  • Appia (gens), plebeian family at Rome
  • Adolphe Appia (1862–1928), Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor
  • Dominique Appia, Swiss painter who lives and works in the city of Geneva
  • Louis Appia (1818–1898), surgeon with special merit in military medicine

Nature

Other uses

  • Appia framework, 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