TRAON, or TRAW, a strong and populous town of the republic of Venice, in Dalmatia, with a bishop's see, seated on the gulph of Venice, in a small island, joined to Terra Firma by a long bridge of wood, and to the isle of Bua by another of stone. It is not very large, but strong and populous. E. Long. 17. 10. N. Lat. 43. 50.