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Bojano
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Bojano or Boiano is a town and comune in the province of Campobasso, Molise, south-central Italy.
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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Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Bojano
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Bojano
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Bojano tetti.jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- View of Bojano
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Bojano-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.region
- Molise
- Italian comune.province
- Campobasso (CB)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- see list
- Italian comune.mayor
- Marco Di Biase
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 49
- Italian comune.population_total
- 8181
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 30 November 2017
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Bojanesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 480
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Bartholomew
- Italian comune.day
- August 25
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 86021
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0874
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Bojano
- Demonym
- bojanesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- province of Campobasso
- Population
- 7393
- Area
- 52.63
- Elevation
- 480
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Spinete
- Official website
- www.comune.bojano.cb.it
- Image
- Bojano tetti.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0874
- Licence plate code
- CB
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- Commons category
- Bojano (Italy)
- postal code
- 86021
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- Bojano (Italy)
- different from
- Bojano, Pomeranian Voivodeship
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- inception
- 0700-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Main sights
- Frazioni
- References
- Sources
- External links
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.
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