anciently a town and dock or station for ships in Illyricum, on the Adriatic; now Valona, or Volana, a port-town in the duchy of Ferrara on one of the mouths of the Po, on the gulf of Venice. E. Long. 13° N. Lat. 44° 50'.

or Aulona, anciently a town of Elis, in Peloponnesus on the confines of Messenia. Here stood a temple of Æsculapius; hence the epithet Aulonius given that divinity, (Pausanias).