(anc. geog.), a town of Italy, in the Gallia Cispadana; a name probably given by the Gauls, there being a Bononia in Galia Belgica. Its ancient name when in the hands of the Tuscans, who were expelled by the Gauls, was Falisia. In the 563rd year of the city the Romans led a colony thither; which, about the beginning of the Aetiac war, was increased by Augustus, and is the Colonia Bononiensis of Tacitus. Now Bologna; which see.

(anc. geog.), a town of Panonia Inferior, between Murfa to the north-west, and Taurinum to the east.—Another Bononia, a town of Moesia Superior, on the Danube; now Bodin, in Bulgaria. See BOBON.