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Olbia (, ; ; Gallurese: Tarranòa) is a city and comune of 58,066 inhabitants (February 2014) in northeastern Sardinia ( Italy), in the Gallura sub-region. Called Olbia in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle Ages ( Giudicati period) and Terranova Pausania before the 1940s, Olbia was again the official name of the city during the period of Fascism.
Pontic Olbia (, ) or simply Olbia is an archaeological site of an ancient Greek city on the shore of the Southern Bug estuary (Hypanis or Ὕπανις,) in Ukraine, near village of Parutyne. The archaeological site is protected as the National Historic and Archaeological Preserve. The preserve is a research and science institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The Hellenic city was founded in the 7th century BC by colonists from Miletus. Its harbour was one of the main emporia on the Black Sea for the export of cereals, fish, and slaves to Greece, and for the import of Attic goods to Scythia.
Olbia may refer to:
- Olbia, in Sardinia
- Olbia (Egypt), ancient city later called Arsinoe
- Olbia, Ukraine (the Pontic Olbia)
- Olbia, Libya, later called Polis Nea Theodorias and Qasr-Libya / Qasr Lebia
- Olbia, Turkey, name of Nicomedia, present-day İzmit, Astacus in Antiquity (712 BC)
Olbia may also refer to:
- Hyères, France
- Lavatera, a genus of plants in the Malvaceae family.
This name in Greek means "happy" or "rich".
Olbia or Arsinoe ( Greek: ) was an ancient city in the Regio Troglodytica upon the western coast of the Red Sea between Philoteras ( Quseir or Kosseir) and Myos Hormos. ( Strabo xvi. p. 769; Steph. B. s. v. ). The city was renamed from Olbia to Arsinoe by Ptolemy II in honor of Arsinoe II of Egypt, who was both his sister and wife. According to Agatharchides (de Rub. Mar. p. 53), there were hot springs in its neighborhood. The city stood nearly at the point where the limestone range of the Arabian hills joins the Mons Porphyrites, and at the southern entrance of the Gulf of Suez (the Heroopolite Gulf).