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BONONIA

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(anc. geogr.), a town of Gallia Belgica, supposed to be the Portus Iectus of Caesar, and the Gefforiacum of Mela, and to have had three different names, (Cluverius). Peetinger's map expressly calls Gefforiacum Bononia. Now Boulogne. E. Long. 1. 30. Lat. 50. 40.

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

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 Bodon in Bulgaria. See Bodon.