Bianna (Βίαννα) was a young unmarried woman from Biennus (modern Viannos) in Crete, according to Stephanus of Byzantium. After a famine forced a mass emigration, she was among those who fled to an area of Gaul along the river Rhône. During a dance, a chasm opened up in the earth and engulfed her.

According to a legend, their companions gave her name to a place, Vienna, which became the capital of the Celtic Allobroges (Vienne in the Dauphiné).

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