in Ancient Geography, a town of Gallia Belgica, supposed to be the Portus Iccius of Caesar, and the Gessoriacum of Mela, and to have had three different names (Cluverius). Peutinger's map expressly calls Gessoriacum Bononia. Now Boulogne. E. Long. 1. 30. N. Lat. 50. 40.

a 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 Falina. In the 563d 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 Bologna; which see.

a town of Pannonia Inferior, between Mursa 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.