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Hybla may refer to: Mythology Hybla (mythology), a goddess of fertility among the ancient Sicilian people, represented on the flag of Sicily Places Sicily *Hybla Gereatis or Hybla Galeatis, possibly modern Paternò *Hybla Heraea, historic quarter (Ibla) of modern Ragusa *Hybla Major, perhaps identical with Megara Hyblaea or with Hybla Gereatis *Hybla Minor, a Sicel site on the east coast north of Syracuse *Megara Hyblaea, archeological site near Augusta North America * Hybla, Ontario, Canada *Hybla Valley, Virginia, U.S. Other * ''Hybla'' (leafhopper), an insect genus in the tribe Dikraneurini *TCP Hybla, a congestion avoidance algorithm for TCP See also * Hyblaean Mountains, south-eastern Sicily, Italy *Hyblaeidae Hyblaeidae are the "teak moths", a family of insects in the Lepidopteran order. The two genera with about 18 species make up one of the two families of the Hyblaeoidea superfamily (the other family being the monotypic Prodidactidae), which in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicily
Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4.7 million inhabitants, including 1.2 million in and around the capital city of Palermo, it is both the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily is named after the Sicels, who inhabited the eastern part of the island during the Iron Age. Sicily has a rich and unique culture in #Art and architecture, arts, Music of Sicily, music, #Literature, literature, Sicilian cuisine, cuisine, and Sicilian Baroque, architecture. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, and one of the most active in the world, currently high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate. It is separated from Calabria by the Strait of Messina. It is one of the five Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pausanias (geographer)
Pausanias ( ; ; ) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his '' Description of Greece'' (, ), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. ''Description of Greece'' provides crucial information for making links between classical literature and modern archaeology, which is providing evidence of the sites and cultural details he mentions although knowledge of their existence may have become lost or relegated to myth or legend. Biography Nothing is known about Pausanias apart from what historians can piece together from his own writing. However, it is probable that he was born into a Greek family and was probably a native of Lydia in Asia Minor. From until his death around 180, Pausanias travelled throughout the mainland of Greece, writing about various monuments, sacred spaces, and significant geographical sites along the way. In writing his '' Description of Greece'', Pausanias sought to put together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybla (mythology)
Hybla may refer to: Mythology Hybla (mythology), a goddess of fertility among the ancient Sicilian people, represented on the flag of Sicily Places Sicily * Hybla Gereatis or Hybla Galeatis, possibly modern Paternò * Hybla Heraea, historic quarter (Ibla) of modern Ragusa * Hybla Major, perhaps identical with Megara Hyblaea or with Hybla Gereatis * Hybla Minor, a Sicel site on the east coast north of Syracuse *Megara Hyblaea, archeological site near Augusta North America * Hybla, Ontario, Canada * Hybla Valley, Virginia, U.S. Other * ''Hybla'' (leafhopper), an insect genus in the tribe Dikraneurini *TCP Hybla, a congestion avoidance algorithm for TCP See also * Hyblaean Mountains, south-eastern Sicily, Italy *Hyblaeidae Hyblaeidae are the "teak moths", a family of insects in the Lepidopteran order. The two genera with about 18 species make up one of the two families of the Hyblaeoidea superfamily (the other family being the monotypic Prodidactidae), which in t ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Sicily
The flag of Sicily shows a '' triskeles'' symbol (a figure of three legs arranged in rotational symmetry), and at its center a Gorgoneion (depiction of the head of Medusa) with a pair of wings and three wheat ears. In the original flag, the wheat ears did not exist and the colors were reversed. The original flag was created in 1282 during the rebellion of the Sicilian Vespers. Description The flag is characterized by the presence of the triskeles in its middle formed by the winged head of a woman (, goddess of fertility among the ancient Sicilian people), head topped with a knot of snakes and three wheat ears, from which three bent legs radiate, as if seized in mid-race, representing the extreme fertility of the land of Sicily. The triskelion symbol is said to represent the three capes (headlands or promontories of the island of Sicily), namely: Pelorus (Peloro, Tip of Faro, Messina: North-East); Pachynus (Passero, Syracuse: South); and Lilybæum (Lilibeo, Cape Boeo, Marsal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybla Gereatis
Hybla Gereatis (Greek: ), was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, located on the southern slope of Mount Etna, not far from the river Symaethus, in the modern ''comune'' of Paternò. There were at least three (and possibly as many as five) cities named "Hybla" in ancient accounts of Sicily which are often confounded with each other, and which it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish. Hybla Gereatis has been described as the largest and most considerable of the Sicilian cities called Hybla, thence equated with Hybla Major or Magna. Pausanias (in whose time it had ceased to be an independent city) described the city as situated in the territory of Catana (modern Catania). In like manner, we find it noticed by Thucydides as a place between Catana and Centuripa (modern Centuripe), so that the Athenians, on their return from an expedition to the latter city, ravaged the corn fields of the Inessaeans and Hyblaeans. It was clearly a Siculian city; and hence, at an earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybla Heraea
Hybla Heraea or Hybla Hera ( Greek: or ) was an ancient city of Sicily; its site is at the modern ''località'' of Ibla, in the ''comune'' of Ragusa. There were at least three (and possibly as many as five) cities named "Hybla" in ancient accounts of Sicily which are often confounded with each other, and which it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish. William Smith, Britain's foremost classicist of the 19th century, begins to describe Hybla Major with an admixture of locational and historic information from both Hybla Gereatis and Megara Hyblaea. Caution should therefore be used when assuming reference to "Hybla" in an ancient source refers to this city. History Hybla Heraea is called by Stephanus of Byzantium "Hybla the Less or Hybla the Least" (), in distinction to Hybla Major and Hybla Minor, and surnamed Hera or Heraea (, ). Of the cities of Sicily bearing the name "Hybla", it is much the least known from ancient sources. No allusion to it is found in Pausanias, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybla Major
Hybla Major or Hybla Magna () – the "Greater Hybla" – was a name used to identify the most important of the ancient cities named Hybla in Magna Graecia in Sicily. Controversy There is much debate as to which of the cities named "Hybla" the name applied ( Hybla Gereatis or Megara Hyblaea) and whether the name uniformly applied to the same city over the period during which the name was used. Initially Megara Hyblaea was the more important; it was founded c. 728 BCE and destroyed in c. 481 BCE. Hybla Gereatis, however, played an important role in the Second Punic War, in the 3rd century BCE. A possible explanation of how the term arose is from a corruption of the rho in Greek "Megara" to a lambda Lambda (; uppercase , lowercase ; , ''lám(b)da'') is the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoen ... generating "Megala" (me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybla Minor
Hybla may refer to: Mythology Hybla (mythology), a goddess of fertility among the ancient Sicilian people, represented on the flag of Sicily Places Sicily *Hybla Gereatis or Hybla Galeatis, possibly modern Paternò *Hybla Heraea, historic quarter (Ibla) of modern Ragusa *Hybla Major, perhaps identical with Megara Hyblaea or with Hybla Gereatis * Hybla Minor, a Sicel site on the east coast north of Syracuse *Megara Hyblaea, archeological site near Augusta North America * Hybla, Ontario, Canada * Hybla Valley, Virginia, U.S. Other * ''Hybla'' (leafhopper), an insect genus in the tribe Dikraneurini *TCP Hybla, a congestion avoidance algorithm for TCP See also * Hyblaean Mountains, south-eastern Sicily, Italy *Hyblaeidae Hyblaeidae are the "teak moths", a family of insects in the Lepidopteran order. The two genera with about 18 species make up one of the two families of the Hyblaeoidea superfamily (the other family being the monotypic Prodidactidae), which in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicels
The Sicels ( ; or ''Siculī'') were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during the Iron Age. They spoke the Siculian language. After the defeat of the Sicels at the Battle of Nomae in 450 BC and the death of Sicel leader Ducetius in 440 BC, the Sicel state broke down and the Sicel culture merged into Magna Graecia. History Archaeological excavation has shown some Mycenean influence on Bronze Age Sicily. The earliest literary mention of Sicels is in the '' Odyssey''. Homer also mentions Sicania, but makes no distinctions: "they were (from) a faraway place and a faraway people and apparently they were one and the same" for Homer, Robin Lane Fox notes. It is possible that the Sicels and the Sicani of the Iron Age had consisted of an Illyrian population who (as with the Messapians) had imposed themselves on a native, Pre-Indo-European ("Mediterranean") population. Thucydides and other classical writers were aware of the traditions accordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megara Hyblaea
Megara Hyblaea () – perhaps identical with Hybla Major – is an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near Augusta, Sicily, Augusta on the east coast, north-northwest of Syracuse, Italy, Syracuse, Italy, on the deep bay formed by the Xiphonian promontory. There were at least three (and possibly as many as five) cities named "Hybla" in ancient accounts of Sicily which are often confounded with each other, and among which it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish. History It was unquestionably a Greek colony, deriving its origin from the Megara in Ancient Greece, Greece; and the circumstances attending its foundation are related in detail by Thucydides. He tells us that a colony from Megara, under the command of a leader named Lamis (), arrived in Sicily about the time that Leontini was founded by the Chalcis, Chalcidic colonists, and settled themselves first near the mouth of the river Pantagias, at a place called Trotilon (Latin: Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybla Valley, Virginia
Hybla Valley () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of Alexandria. The population was 15,801 at the 2010 census, down from 16,721 in 2000 due to a reduction in area, resulting from some of the eastward neighborhoods including much of Hollin Hills being moved to the Fort Hunt CDP. The population increased to 16,319 in the 2020 census. History The Mason family's Hollin Hall plantation, just south of Alexandria, had become the property of several owners, including Edward Curtis Gibbs and the Wilson family. Thomson Dairy had been founded on the land in the late 19th century, and lasted until Merle Thorpe purchased it in the early 20th century. The various dairy farms, such as Sherwood Farm, Hybla Valley Farm, and Popkins Farm were converted into suburban neighborhoods, while plans for the construction of the George Washington Air Junction and the Hybla Valley Airport began. The civilian airport was proposed to be the largest in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
