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Hybla Gereatis, the Glossary

Hybla Gereatis (Greek: Ὕβλα ἡ Γελεᾶτις), 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.^[1]

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Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy

Aetna (city)

Aetna (Ancient Greek: Αἴτνη, Aítnē), was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated at the foot of the mountain of the same name, on its southern declivity. Hybla Gereatis and Aetna (city) are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy, ancient cities in Sicily and former populated places in Italy.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.

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Catania

Catania (Sicilian and) is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Hybla Gereatis and Catania are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy, ancient cities in Sicily and Roman towns and cities in Italy.

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Centuripe

Centuripe (Latin: Centuripae; Sicilian: Centorbi) is a town and comune in the province of Enna (Sicily, southern Italy).

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Comune

A comune (comuni) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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History of Athens

Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years.

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Hybla Major

Hybla Major or Hybla Magna (Ὕβλα ἡ μείζων and Ὕβλα Μεγάλη) – the "Greater Hybla" – was a name used to identify the most important of the ancient cities named Hybla in Magna Graecia in Sicily. Hybla Gereatis and Hybla Major are ancient cities in Sicily and former populated places in Italy.

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In Verrem

"In Verrem" ("Against Verres") is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres, the former governor of Sicily.

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Joseph Hilarius Eckhel

Joseph Hilarius Eckhel (13 January 1737 – 16 May 1798) was an Austrian Jesuit priest and numismatist.

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Kilometre

The kilometre (SI symbol: km; or), spelt kilometer in American English and Philippine English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for). It is the preferred measurement unit to express distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is used.

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List of ancient Greek cities

This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece.

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Livy

Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.

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Magna Graecia

Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.

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Marcus Cornelius Cethegus (consul 204 BC)

Marcus Cornelius Cethegus (c. 248 BC196 BC) was a Roman Republican consul and censor during the Second Punic War, best known as a political ally of his kinsman Scipio Africanus.

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Megara Hyblaea

Megara Hyblaea (Μέγαρα Ὑβλαία) – perhaps identical with Hybla Major – is an ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near Augusta on the east coast, north-northwest of Syracuse, Italy, on the deep bay formed by the Xiphonian promontory. Hybla Gereatis and Megara Hyblaea are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy, ancient cities in Sicily and former populated places in Italy.

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Mount Etna

Mount Etna, or simply Etna (Etna or Mongibello; Muncibbeḍḍu or 'a Muntagna; Aetna; Αἴτνα and Αἴτνη), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania.

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Municipium

In ancient Rome, the Latin term municipium (municipia) referred to a town or city.

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Paternò

Paternò (Patennò) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania, in the Italian region of Sicily.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD.

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Philipp Clüver

Philipp Clüver (also Klüwer, Cluwer, or Cluvier, Latinized as Philippus Cluverius and Philippi Cluverii) (1580 – 31 December 1622) was an Early Modern German geographer and historian.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer.

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Praetor

Praetor, also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybla_Gereatis

Also known as Hybla Galeatis.