Hybla may refer to:
Mythology
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 qua ...
, a goddess of fertility among the ancient Sicilian people, represented on the
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 whea ...
Places
Sicily
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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 fiv ...
or Hybla Galeatis, possibly modern Paternò
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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 accou ...
, historic quarter (Ibla) of modern Ragusa
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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" ...
, perhaps identical with Megara Hyblaea or with Hybla Gereatis
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Hybla Minor, a
Sicel site on the east coast north of Syracuse
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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, ...
, archeological site near Augusta
North America
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Hybla, Ontario, Canada
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Hybla Valley, Virginia, U.S.
Other
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''Hybla'' (leafhopper), an insect genus in the tribe
Dikraneurini
*TCP Hybla, a
congestion avoidance algorithm for TCP
See also
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Hyblaean Mountains, south-eastern Sicily, Italy
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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 ...
, a family of moths
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