Xenia may refer to:

People

Xenia (name) Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from Greek ξενία '' xenia'', "hospitality") is a female given name. The below sections list notable people with one of the variants of this given name. Related names include '' Oksan ...

, a feminine given name; includes a list of people with this name

Places

United States

''listed alphabetically by state'' *

Xenia, Illinois Xenia ( ) is a village in Clay County, Illinois, United States. The population was 380 at the 2020 census. Geography Xenia is located in southwestern Clay County at (38.6373694, -88.6374130). U.S. Route 50 passes to the north of the village, le ...

, a village in Clay County **

Xenia Township, Clay County, Illinois Xenia Township ( ) is one of twelve townships in Clay County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 617 and it contained 303 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township (N½ T2N R5E) has a total area o ...

, a city in Logan County now known as Atlanta * Xenia, Indiana, a town in Miami County now known as Converse * Xenia, Dallas County, Iowa, an unincorporated community *

Xenia, Hardin County, Iowa Secor, previously known as Xenia and Delanti, is a ghost town in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The community was south-southeast of Eldora, Iowa, Eldora. In its early years, the community was the site of one of the few bridges across the Io ...

, an unincorporated community *

Xenia, Kansas Xenia ( ) is an unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Bourbon County, Kansas, United States. History Settling in the Xenia area in 1856, the year after Bourbon County was organized in 1855, were John Van Syckle, Samuel Stephenson and Ch ...

, an unincorporated community in Bourbon County * Xenia, Missouri, an extinct community *

Xenia, Ohio Xenia ( ) is a city in southwestern Ohio and the county seat of Greene County, Ohio, United States. It is east of Dayton and is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Miami Valley region. The name comes from the Greek l ...

, a city in Greene County **

Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio Xenia Township is one of the twelve townships of Greene County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 6,537. Geography Located at the center of the county, it borders the following townships: * Miami Township - north * C ...

Elsewhere

Xenia Hill Xenia Hill is the rocky hill rising to 96 m in the northeast extremity of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It surmounts McFarlane Strait to the north and east, and Menguante Cove to the south-southeast. The area was ...

, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Hospitality

Xenia (Greek) Xenia ( el, ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality. It is almost always translated as 'guest-friendship' or 'ritualized friendship'. It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity. Hi ...

, the ancient Greek concept of hospitality, translated as "guest-friendship" ** ''Xenia'' motif, the representation of a host's generosity to his guests *

Xenia (hotel) {{for, Xenia Hotels & Resorts in Florida, Xenia Hotels & Resorts Xenia (Ξενία) was a nationwide hotel construction program initiated by the Hellenic Tourism Organisation (Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Τουρισμού, E.O.T.) t ...

, a now-defunct chain of state-owned hotels in Greece *

Xenia Hotels & Resorts Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is a real estate investment trust that invests in hotels. As of December 31, 2019, it owned 39 hotels comprising 11,245 rooms. History In 2014, the company was formed as a corporate spin-off of InvenTrust Properties. ...

, an Orlando-based hotel company

Nature

* ''Xenia'' (coral), a genus of coral *

Xenia (plants) Xenia (also known as the Xenia effect) in plants is the effect of pollen on seeds and fruit of the fertilized plant. The effect is separate from the contribution of the pollen towards the next generation. The term was coined in 1881 by the botanis ...

, pollen effects on seeds and fruits * '' Hypolycaena xenia'', a species of butterfly * ''

Paratephritis xenia ''Paratephritis xenia'' is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus '' Paratephritis'' of the family Tephritidae. Distribution China, Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conv ...

'', a species of fruit flies * ''

Phyllocnistis xenia ''Phyllocnistis xenia'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Great Britain to Bulgaria and from Poland to the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. The wingspan is 6–7 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August and again from ...

'', a species of moth

Vehicles

Xenia (automobile) The Xenia was an American cyclecar designed by P. E. Hawkins of Cleveland and manufactured in Xenia, Ohio in 1914. The factory was Fred Baldner's machine shop, in which Baldner manufactured his own car from 1900 to 1903. The Model 14A was ...

, an American car *

Daihatsu Xenia The Toyota Avanza and Daihatsu Xenia are cars developed by Daihatsu and marketed by both Toyota and Daihatsu. It is a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) and mainly sold with three-row seating. The Avanza and Xenia were developed as an entry-level MPV ...

or Toyota Avanza, a mini MPV * USS ''Xenia'' (AKA-51), an ''Artemis''-class attack transport

Other uses

625 Xenia 625 Xenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer and discoverer of several comets and asteroids. Kopff studied and worked in Hei ...

, an asteroid * ''Xenia'' (film), a 2014 Greek film *

Xenia (band) Xenia was a Yugoslavian pop rock band from Rijeka, active in period 1981–1985 in Yugoslavia. Their discography includes two 7-inch singles singles and two studio albums. Biography The band was formed in 1981 by Vesna Vrandečić and Rob ...

, a former Yugoslav band * ''Xenia'', a book of epigrams by

Martial Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of ''Epigrams'', published in Rome between AD 86 and ...

intended to accompany gifts * ''Xenia Orchidacea'', a book in three volumes published 1858–1900, by

Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of ''Icones Florae Germanicae et Helve ...

& Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin