Nola, an episcopal city of Italy, 16 miles ENE. of Naples. It is built on the site of one of the oldest cities of Campania, founded by the Ausonians, and taken by the Romans in the Samnite war, 313 B.C. Augustus died here, 14 A.D. Pop. 7496.
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