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Inhabited since the 9th century BC, the area has a long and complex history. Boii Celts dominated here from the 4th century BC until the Romans first arrived in BC. Some of the language of this Gaul-Etruscan civililization survives today in the local dialect. After existence on the losing side with Hannibal in the Punic Wars, the urban area was taken over, but thrived under the victorious Romans to become one of the ancient world's most prosperous cities. Several centuries of decline and neglect followed the fall of the Western Empire.

The University of Bologna, European's oldest university, was established here in , attracting students such as Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch. The well-known towers were built and a system of canals made it a victorious trading center -- by the terminate of the 13th century Europe's fifth largest city. Some canals, still located beneath the municipality, can be visited on rafting tours, and over twenty towers remain of an original or so. In , the Legge del Paradiso abolished feudal serfdom and freed the slaves, (using public money), and du