For the town of ancient Ionia, see Ortygia (Ionia).
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Ortygia (/ɔːrˈtɪdʒiə/or-TIJ-ee-ə; Italian: Ortigia[orˈtiːdʒa]; Ancient Greek: Ὀρτυγία, romanized: Ortygía) is a small island which is the historical centre of the city of Syracuse, Sicily. The island, also known as the Città Vecchia (Old City), contains many historical landmarks.
The name originates from the Ancient Greek órtyx (ὄρτυξ), which means "quail".[1]
^W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 5.123
Ortygia (/ɔːrˈtɪdʒiə/ or-TIJ-ee-ə; Italian: Ortigia [orˈtiːdʒa]; Ancient Greek: Ὀρτυγία, romanized: Ortygía) is a small island which is the historical...
Anticla ortygia is a moth in the family Bombycidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1887. It is found in Panama. Savela, Markku (June 29, 2010)....
Lepidochrysops ortygia, the koppie blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Africa, from the hills in the Eastern Cape, north...
in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, whereupon Alpheius...
Syracuse, Sicily, southern Italy. It is situated at the far point of the Ortygia island promontory, where it was constructed between 1232 and 1240 by the...
are twins, and they are given different birthplaces (he in Delos, she in Ortygia). The first to speak of Leto's children being twins is a slightly later...
advances, she flung herself into the sea and became a floating rock called Ortygia until the twins were born. When Leto stepped on the rock, four pillars...
Aretusa, Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα) is a natural spring on the island of Ortygia in the historical centre of the city of Syracuse in Sicily. According to...
Palazzo Mergulese-Montalto, is a late 14th-century palace on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily. The palace was built in 1397 for Maciotta Mergulese...
Artemis who delights in arrows; her in Ortygia, and him in rocky Delos," says the Homeric Hymn; the etymology Ortygia, "Isle of Quail", is not supported by...
designated in 2005. The cathedral stands in the city's historic core on Ortygia Island. The origins of a temple on this site date to prehistory. The great...
important road and rail hub of Sicily. The Park of Neapolis on the island of Ortygia is connected by three bridges to the mainland. The island contains the...
seems to exist of Artemis' birthplace being either Delos or the island of Ortygia). Between 900 BC and 100 AD, Delos was a major cult centre, where the gods...
variation states that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth...
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