Bononia
Βονωνία
Bononia (Βονωνία).
1.
(Banostor?) a fort built by the Romans in Pannonia, opposite to Onagrinum on the Danube, in the district occupied by the Iazyges. It was the station of the fifth cohort of the fifth legion, and of a squadron of Dalmatian horsemen. (Ptol. 2.15.4; Amm. Marc. 21.9, 31.11; Itin. Anton. p. 243; Notit. Imp.)
2.
A town of the Iapydes in Illyris Barbara, of which ruins are still extant near Bunich. (Ptol. 2.14.4, who however places this town also in Pannonia.)
3.
A town in Upper Moesia, on the Danube, generally identified with the town of Bonus near Widdin. (Amm. Marc. 31.11; Itin. Ant. p. 219.) It is probably the same place as the Benopia (Βενοπία) mentioned by Hierocles (p. 655; comp. Procop. De Aedif. 4.6, p. 290.) [L.S]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.