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Phla

Φλά

Phla (Φλά), an island in the lake Tritonis in the interior of Libya (Hdt. 4.178), which Stephanus B., copying from Herodotus, calls an island in Aegypt, confounding it with the island of Philae the in the Nile.

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.