There are several things that have the name 'Phyle' (
Greek 'φυλή', ''clan, race, people'', derived from ancient Greek ''φυεσθαι - to descend, to originate''):
★ Phyle is an ethnological and sociological term for a tribe, particularly in ancient Greece.
★ Phyle is the classical spelling of modern
Fyli, a locale in northwestern Attica and the site of the
Battle of Phyle.
★ A sociological analog of a biological
phyla, mentioned in a
novel The Diamond Age by
Neal Stephenson which includes three great tribes.