The Battle of Bovianum was fought in 305 BC between the Romans and the Samnites. The Romans were led by two consuls, Tiberius Minucius Augurinus and Lucius...
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Bojano (redirect from Bovianum Undecumanorum)
of Campobasso, Molise, south-central Italy. Originally named Bovianum, it was settled by the 7th century BC. As the capital of the Pentri, a tribe of...
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Augurinus on Bovianum. There was a battle at Tifernum where some of Livy's sources say that Postumius was defeated, while others say that the battle was even...
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Lucius Postumius Megellus, decisively defeat the Samnites in the Battle of Bovianum to end the Second Samnite War. Agathocles, unable to come to terms...
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Samnites under Gaius Pontius. 316 BC – Battle of Lautulae – Romans are defeated by the Samnites. 305 BC – Battle of Bovianum – Roman consuls M. Fulvius and L...
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Roman Republic (redirect from Rise of Rome)
Samnite War began in 327 BC. The war ended with Samnite defeat at the Battle of Bovianum in 305 BC. By 304 BC, Rome had annexed most Samnite territory and...
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central Samnium and defeats a Samnite army near Bovianum. He then captures Aufidena and possibly also Bovianum. Scipio captures Taurasia and Cisauna in eastern...
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Samnite War. Minucius died from wounds sustained after the victorious battle of Bovianum. Marcus Fulvius Curvus Paetinus succeeded him as consul. Titus Livius...
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Samnium (category Regions of Italy)
composed of at least four tribes: the Pentri (capital: Bovianum), the Caraceni (principal cities: Cluviae, the modern Casoli, and Juvanum, the ruins of which...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling:...
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Roman expansion in Italy (redirect from Roman conquest of Italy)
Romans finally emerged victorious from the battle of Bovianum (305 BC), when by now, as early as 314 BC, the tide of the war was turning decisively in Rome's...
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Lucius Postumius Megellus (consul 305 BC) (category Year of birth uncertain)
troops against the Samnites. He defeated them at the Battle of Bovianum and took the town of Bovianum, which caused the Samnites to sue for peace, ending...
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Statius Gellius (category Prisoners of war)
Samnite War. He was defeated and taken prisoner in 305 BC, at the Battle of Bovianum. Gellia gens Gellius Egnatius Aulus Gellius Livy, ix. 44. 13. v t...
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Lucius Postumius Megellus, decisively defeat the Samnites in the Battle of Bovianum to end the Second Samnite War. Demetrius shows ingenuity in devising...
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the Battle of Lautulae. The Romans then proved victorious at the Battle of Bovianum and the tide turned strongly against the Samnites from 314 BC onwards...
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Samnites take the Roman garrison of Cluviae and scourge their prisoners. Junius liberates the city and then moves on Bovianum and sacks it. The Samnites try...
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Prehistoric Italy. Date of the prehistoric era are approximate. For further background, see history of Italy and list of prime ministers of Italy. Millennia:...
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– Second Samnite war Battle of Bovianum – 305 BC – Second Samnite war Battle of Tifernum – 297 BC – Third Samnite War Battle of Camerinum – 295 BC – Third...
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Celtic pen- <peak>. Their capital city was Bovianum Undecumanorum (Livy ix. 31), modern Bojano, in the very heart of the Samnite territory, and it is therefore...
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Sulla (redirect from Cornelia (daughter of Sulla))
armies near Aesernia before capturing the new Italian capital at Bovianum Undecimanorum. All of these victories would have been won before the consular elections...
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Old Great Bulgaria (category Medieval history of Russia)
northeast of Naples in the "spacious but up till that time deserted" towns of Sepino, Bovianum (Boiano), and Isernia, in the present-day region of Molise...
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Samnites (category History of Campania)
Staius Ov. f. Met. n, Meddix Tuticus in Bovianum in 130 BC. Minatius Staius Stati f, Meddix Tuticus of Bovianum and Pietrabbondante in 120 BC. L. Staius...
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Quintus Poppaedius Silo (category Roman-era inhabitants of Italy)
taken by Lucius Cornelius Sulla. After Bovianum he tried to eject the Romans from Apulia but he was killed in battle by Drusus's brother, Mamercus Aemilius...
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into the heart of the Samnite territory and then capture the Samnite cities of Taurasia, Bovianum Vetus and Aufidena. Agathocles, king of Syracuse, Sicily...
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Gaius Papius Mutilus (category Year of birth unknown)
in Bovianum a number of times in the second half of the 2nd century BC The Samnite army, consisting of southern rebels, was very similar to that of the...
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Fulvia gens (redirect from Fulvia (grandmother of Antony))
the death of the consul Tiberius Minucius Augurinus in battle against the Samnites. According to some accounts, he took the town of Bovianum, and celebrated...
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Legio XI Claudia (category Romanization of Southeastern Europe)
around the area of Bovianum Undecumanorum. Legio XI was reconstituted in 42 BC by Octavian for the civil wars. They served under the command of the second...
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Samnites take the Roman garrison of Cluviae and scourge their prisoners. Junius liberates the city and then moves on Bovianum and sacks it. The Samnites try...
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Agnone (category Municipalities of the Province of Isernia)
after making himself master of Aquilonia, which he burnt to the ground, proceeded to besiege Saepinum, on his way to Bovianum. Agnone also lays claim to...
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this victory, Sulpicius and Poetelius lay siege to the Samnite city of Bovianum before their terms expired and their command was transferred to a dictator...
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