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).