Duronia
Duronia a city of Samnium, mentioned only by Livy (10.39), who tells us that it was taken by the Roman consul L. Papirius in B.C. 293; and from the amount of booty taken, and number of persons put to the sword, it would seem to have been a considerable town. Its site is supposed by Italian topographers to be occupied by a place called Civita Vecchia, 10 miles N. of Bojano (Bovianum), and 3 from Molise, beneath which flows a small stream, said to be still called the Durone, a tributary of the Trigno or Trinium. (Galanti, Descr. delle Due Sicil. lib. 9. c. 4; Romanelli, vol. ii. p. 472.) This locality was, certainly that of an ancient city, but the evidence to connect it with Duronia is far from satisfactory.
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.