Hephaestia
Hephaestia the ancient name of the small island now called Comino, between Malta and Gozo. [MELITA; GAULOS.] (See Wesseling, Itiner. p. 518.) The island is about two miles long from NE. to SW., with a good channel on each side. It has always been, with Gozo, a dependency of Malta. To the SW. is a small rocky islet called Cominotto, of which the ancient name is unknown.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.