the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in north central Italy, built below a group of mountains called the Apennines. a type of cooked meat often eaten in sandwiches (Bologna Italian city). City (pop., 2001 prelim.: 369,955), capital of Emilia-Romagna region, northern Italy. Located north of Florence, it lies at the northern foot of the Apennines. Originally the Etruscan town of Felsina, it became a Roman military colony 190 BC. It was subject to the Byzantine exarchate of Ravenna from the 6th century AD. It became a free commune in the 12th century. Incorporated into the Papal States in 1506, it was the scene of the crowning of Charles V in 1530. After a brief period of French occupation, it was restored to the Papal States in 1815, and in 1861 it was united to the Kingdom of Italy. The University of Bologna is Europe's oldest university. The city is a road and rail centre for traffic between northern and southern Italy. It is the site of excellent medieval and Renaissance architecture and is famous for its cuisine. It was governed by communists in the second half of the 20th century
{i} smoked sausage made of a mixture of meats; lunch meat made out of a few kinds of processed meat
Bologna is an ancient Italian city, a former Etruscan town, located at the foot of the Appenines Bologna lies 51 miles northeast of Florence on the route across northern Italy In the 12th century it was incorporated as a free commune and is the seat of the oldest European University Its major church, San Petronio, dates from the 14th century [Chapter 27]
Oldest university in Europe, founded in Bologna, Italy, in 1088. It became in the 12th-13th centuries the principal centre for studies in civil and canon law, and it served as a model for the organization of universities throughout Europe. Its faculties of medicine and philosophy were formed 1200. The faculty of science was developed in the 17th century. In the 18th century women were admitted as students and teachers. The modern university includes faculties of law, political science, economics, letters and philosophy, natural sciences, agriculture, medicine, and engineering
disapproval If you say that an idea or statement is baloney, you disapprove of it and think it is foolish or wrong. That's a load of baloney. = rubbish, garbage. something that is silly or not true = nonsense (bologna)