| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bologna |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bo·lo·gna |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b -l n y |
| A city of north-central Italy at the foot of the Apennines north-northeast of Florence. It was originally an Etruscan town and became a Roman colony in the second century b.c. Its famed university was founded as a law school in a.d. 425. Population: 404,322. | | OTHER FORMS: | Bo·lognan, Bo lo·gnese (bl-n z, -ns, -ln-yz, -ys) —ADJECTIVE & NOUN
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