BOII, a people of Celtic Gaul, in the country now called Bourbonnois. There was also a nation of the same name in Germany. See Manners of the Germans, s. 28. BONNA, now _Bonn_, in the electorate of _Cologne_. BONONIA, called by Tacitus _Bononiensis_; now _Bologna_, capital of the _Bolognese_ in Italy. BOSPHORANI, a people bordering on the Euxine; the _Tartars_. BOSPHORUS, two straits of the sea so called; one _Bosphorus Thracius_, now _the straits of Constantinople_; the other _Bosphorus Cimmerius_, now _the straits of Caffa_. BOVILLÆ, a town of Latium, near Mount Albanus; about ten miles from Rome, on the Appian Road. BRIGANTES, the ancient inhabitants of _Yorkshire_, _Lancashire_, _Durham_, _Westmoreland_, and _Cumberland_. BRIXELLUM, the town where Otho dispatched himself after the defeat at _Bedriacum_; now _Bresello_, in the territory of _Reggio_. BRIXIA, a town of Italy, on this side of the Po; now _Brescia_. BRUCTERIANS, a people of Germany, situate in Westphalia. See the Manners of the Germans, s. 33. note a. BRUNDUSIUM, a town of Calabria, with an excellent harbour, at the entrance of the Adriatic, affording to the Romans a commodious passage to Greece. The Via Appia ended at this town. Now _Brindisi_, in the territory of _Otranto_, in the kingdom of Naples. BYZANTIUM, a city of Thrace, on the narrow strait that separates Europe from Asia; now _Constantinople_. See Annals, xii. s. 63. C. CÆLALETÆ, a people of Thrace, near Mount Hæmus. CÆRACATES, probably the diocese of _Mayence_. CÆSAREA, a maritime town in Palestine; now _Kaisarié_. CÆSIAN FOREST, now the Forest of _Heserwaldt_, in the duchy of Cleves. It is supposed to be a part of the Hercynian Forest. CALABRIA, a peninsula of Italy, between Tarentum and Brundusium; now the territory of Otranto, in the kingdom of Naples. CAMELODUNUM, said by some to be _Malden_ in Essex, but by Camden, and others, _Colchester_. It was made a Roman colony under the emperor Claudius; a place of pleasure rather than of strength, adorned with splendid works, a theatre, and a temple of Claudius. CAMERIUM, a city in the territory of the Sabines; now destroyed. CAMPANIA, a territory of Italy, bounded on the west by the Tuscan sea. The most fertile and delightful part of Italy; now called _Terra di Lavoro_. CANGI, the inhabitants of Cheshire, and part of Lancashire. CANINEFATES, a people of the Lower Germany, from the same origin as the Batavians, and inhabitants of the west part of the isle of Batavia. CANOPUS, a city of the Lower Egypt, situate on a branch of the Nile called by the same name. CAPPADOCIA, a large country in Asia Minor, between Cilicia the Euxine sea. Being made a Roman province, the inhabitants had an offer made them of a free and independent government; but their answer was, Liberty might suit the Romans, but the Cappadocians would neither receive liberty, nor endure it.