a town of Naples, in the province of Terra di Lavoro, stands on the plain between Mount Vesuvius and the Apennines, fourteen miles E.N.E. of Naples. It is ill built and dirty; contains several churches and convents, a college, hospital and barracks; and is the see of a bishop. The town is of great antiquity, and is remarkable in Roman history for the resistance it offered to Hannibal in B.C. 216, who received his first check from Marcellus under the walls of this town. Nola is also remarkable as the place where Augustus died, A.D. 14; and in the fifth century it was the see of St Paulinus, by whom church bells were introduced. Many remains of antiquity have been found at Nola. Pop. 9600.