Abila, also spelled Abyla, may refer to:
Places
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Abila in the Decapolis, ancient city in the Levant
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Abila Lysaniou
Abila Lysaniou or Abila Lysaniae or Abila () was an ancient city, on the Abana River and capital of ancient Abilene, Coele-Syria.
Location
The site contains ruins of a temple, aqueducts, and other remains, and inscriptions, on the banks of the ...
, capital of ancient Abilene, northwest of present-day Damascus, Syria
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Abila (Peraea)
Abila () was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains of Moab, later Perea (Holy Land), Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea. The site is identified with modern Khirbet el-Kafrayn, Jord ...
, archaeological site in Jordan
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''Abila'', Latin name of Ávila, Spain
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Abyla
Abyla was the pre-Roman name of Ad Septem Fratres (actual Ceuta of Spain). Ad Septem Fratres, usually shortened to ''Septem'' or ''Septa'', was a Roman Empire, Roman Roman colonia, colony in the Roman province, province of Mauretania Tingitana a ...
, Roman colony in the province of Mauretania Tingitana
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Mount Abila, mountain in Ceuta, autonomous city of Spain, in Africa
Other
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''Abila'' (grasshopper), a genus of grasshoppers
See also
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Abela
Abela is a surname.
The Abela family, which is a branch of the royal family of Spain, is originally from Catalonia from where some of its members moved to Valence and then to Sicilia and to Malta. Ávila (called Abela by the Romans) is the capita ...
, a surname
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Abilene (biblical) Abilene () or simply Abila () was a plain, a district in Coele-Syria, of which the chief town was Abila Lysaniou (Ἄβιλα Λυσανίου). The limits of this region are nowhere exactly defined, but it seems to have included the eastern slope ...
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