Bologna
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- Names
Bologna
Bologne
Bolognese
Bononia
Felsina
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Etruscan town was taken by Gallic Boii 4th century BCE; was Roman colony ca. 196 BCE; part of Greek exarchate of Ravenna 6th century CE, then went to pope; damaged in Goth and Hun invasions. There was internal Guelph-Ghibelline strife and a series of wars was fought from the mid-13th century through the early 14th century between Guelf-controlled Florence and allies (Montepulciano, Bologna, and Orvieto) and their Ghibelline opponents (Pisa, Siena, Pistoia, and Arezzo). Bologna thrived under Papal States from 1506.
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- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (1994-2002); Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (2002-); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-); OED2 on CD-ROM (1994); Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979); Rand McNally Atlas (1994)...
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