Bojano
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Bojano (also spelled Boiano) is a small town located in the Molise region of south-central Italy, specifically within the province of Campobasso. It is a comune, which is the basic administrative division in Italy similar to a municipality or township.
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- Bojano
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- Comune di Bojano
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- View of Bojano
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- Italian comune.region
- Molise
- Italian comune.province
- Campobasso (CB)
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- Marco Di Biase
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- 49
- Italian comune.population_total
- 8181
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 30 November 2017
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Bojano or Boiano is a town and comune in the province of Campobasso, Molise, south-central Italy.
==History== Originally named Bovianum, it was settled by the 7th century BC. As the capital of the Pentri, a tribe of the Samnites, it played a major role in the Samnite Wars, as well as in the Social War, when it was a temporary capital (89 BC). It was sacked by Sulla.