Gioja, Or Gioja Dal Colle, a town of Italy, in the province of Bari, situated on the crest of the E. branch of the Apennines, on the road from Bari to Taranto, 18 m. E. by S. of Altamura; pop. in 1862, 17,005. It derives great prosperity from the rich local products of cereals and oil. The outskirts were in former times covered with woods, which the emperor Frederick II. enclosed for a park.-There is also a town of Gioja on theW.coast of Calabria, which gives its name to a gulf.