Bovianum
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Two cities of ancient Italy were named Bovianum, both in Samnium
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Samnium
Samnium is a Latin exonym for a region of south or south and central Italy in Roman times. The name survives in Italian today, but today's territory comprising it is only a small portion of what it once was. The populations of Samnium were called Samnites by the Romans...
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- Bovianum Undecumanorum, now Boiano
- Bovianum Vetus, a colonia of uncertain location, sometimes (erroneously, according to the OCDOxford Classical Dictionary-Overview:The Oxford Classical Dictionary is considered to be the standard one-volume encyclopaedia in English of topics relating to the Ancient World and its civilizations. It was first published in 1949, edited by Max Cary with the assistance of H. J. Rose, H. P. Harvey, and A. Souter. A...
), identified with PietrabbondantePietrabbondantePietrabbondante is a comune in the Province of Isernia in the Italian region Molise, located about 30 km northwest of Campobasso and about 20 km northeast of Isernia....