Hercynia is a name for the ancient

Hercynian Forest The Hercynian Forest was an ancient and dense forest that stretched across Western Central Europe, from North French Scarplands, Northeastern France to the Carpathian Mountains, including most of Southern Germany, though its boundaries are a mat ...

. Hercynia or Hercynian may also refer to: *

458 Hercynia 458 Hercynia, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 38 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 21 September 1900, by astronomers Max Wolf and Arnold Schwassmann at the ...

, an asteroid *Hercynian orogeny, a synonym for the

Variscan orogeny The Variscan orogeny, or Hercynian orogeny, was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea. Nomenclature The name ''Varis ...

of the Carboniferous *Hercynian massifs, part of the Massif Central of France *, a journal published by the Universities and Landesbibliothek of Sachsen-Anhalt, which covers ecology and environmental biology *''Hercynia'', a junior synonym of the ant genus ''

Wasmannia ''Wasmannia'' is a genus of ants. ''Wasmannia auropunctata'' is known as the ''electric ant''Hercuniates This is a list of ancient tribes in the ancient territory of Illyria (; ). The name ''Illyrians'' seems to be the name of a single Illyrian tribe that was the first to come into contact with the ancient Greeks, causing the name Illyrians to be ap ...

, a tribe of ancient Hercynia

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