- Two
cities of
ancient Italy were
named Bovianum, both in Samnium:
Bojano (
Bovianum Unde****anorum)
Bovianum Vetus, a
colonia of
uncertain location, sometimes...
-
province of Campob****o, Molise, south-central Italy.
Originally named Bovianum, it was
settled by the 7th
century BC. As the
capital of the Pentri, a...
- The
Battle of
Bovianum was
fought in 305 BC
between the
Romans and the Samnites. The
Romans were led by two consuls,
Tiberius Minucius Augurinus and Lucius...
-
central Samnium and
defeats a
Samnite army near
Bovianum. He then
captures Aufidena and
possibly also
Bovianum.
Scipio captures Taurasia and
Cisauna in eastern...
-
Samnites fled to Maleventum, in Samnium. The two
consuls went on to
besiege Bovianum, the
capital of the Pentri, the
largest of the four
Samnite tribes, and...
- War
began in 327 BC. The war
ended with
Samnite defeat at the
Battle of
Bovianum in 305 BC. By 304 BC, Rome had
annexed most
Samnite territory and begun...
- the
Samnite territory and then
capture the
Samnite cities of Taurasia,
Bovianum Vetus and Aufidena. Agathocles, king of Syracuse, Sicily, ****ists the Italian...
-
Lucius Postumius Megellus,
decisively defeat the
Samnites in the
Battle of
Bovianum to end the
Second Samnite War. Agathocles,
unable to come to
terms with...
- to the east. The prin****l
cities of the
region were Bovaiamom,
renamed Bovianum by
Latins (today:
Bojano or Boiano) and
Maleventum (Maloenton in Oscan)...
- Samnium,
recaptured the
Samnite capital Bovianum which had been
taken by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
After Bovianum he
tried to
eject the
Romans from Apulia...
