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In 189 B.C., the Romans established the city of Bononia, on the via Aemilia, the great Roman road connecting Rimini with Piacenza and Milan. The via Emilia was the cityís decumanus maximus (main road).
Bononia lay at the centre of an extensive, flat and fertile area, which the Romans made productive with the wide-scale agricultural arrangement called Centuriazione (division of lands into two hundred-juger plots).