Colomia, a town of Poland in Red Russia, seated on the river Pruth, in E. Long. 25° 9'. N. Lat. 48° 45'.

Colonna, Fabio, a very learned botanist, born at Naples about the year 1567. He became skilled in the languages, in music, designing, painting, and the mathematics; and died about the middle of the 17th century. He wrote, 1. Φυτοβασιλευς, seu Plantarum aliquot (ac piscium) historia. 2. Minus cognitarum rariorumque stirpium μεγαλεια; etiamque de aquatilibus, aliisque nonnullis animalibus, libellus; and other works.