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Aeolis

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Ae·o·lis  (-ls) or Ae·o·li·a (-l-)
An ancient region of the western coast of Asia Minor in present-day Turkey. It was made up of a group of cities founded by the Aeolians c. 1100 b.c.
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Noun1.Aeolis - an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC
Aeolia
Anatolia, Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
Lesbos, Lesvos, Mytilene - an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry
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Secondly, Hesiod claims that his father -- if not he himself -- came from Aeolis and settled in Boeotia.
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