Hybla

In geography, Hybla may refer to any of several different sites in ancient Sicily:^[1]

• Megara Hyblaea, archeological site near Augusta
• Hybla Heraea, historic quarter (Ibla) of modern Ragusa
• Hybla Major, perhaps identical with Megara Hyblaea or with Hybla Gereatis
• Hybla Minor
• Hybla Gereatis or Hybla Galeatis, modern Paternò

or in modern America:

• Hybla Valley, Virginia

In literature and poetry, Hyblean is used as an adjective related to honey. One of the ancient towns known as Hybla in Sicily was renowned for its honey; many associate this Hybla with Hyblaean Mountains (figuratively Mount Hybla^[2]) in the modern Province of Ragusa.

In computing:

• TCP Hybla is a congestion avoidance algorithm for TCP.

Other

• Hybla (leafhopper), an insect genus in the tribe Dikraneurini

Notes

1. The circumstance that there were so many towns called Hybla in Sicily probably arose from the fact mentioned by Pausanias, that there was a local divinity of the name. (Paus. v. 23. § 6.)
2. For example Hunt, Leigh. Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla (1848), a book on pastoral poetry of Sicily.