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AEOLIS (AEOLIA)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 258 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AEOLIS (AEOLIA) , an See also:ancient See also:district of See also:Asia See also:Minor, colonized at a very See also:early date by Aeolian Greeks. The name was applied to the See also:coast from the See also:river Hermus to the promontory of Lectum, i.e. between See also:Ionia to S. and Troas to N. The Aeolians founded twelve cities on the mainland, including Cyme, and numerous towns in Mytilene: they were said also to have settled in the See also:Troad and even within the See also:Hellespont.

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