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AEGIROESSA

AEGIROESSA (Αἰγιρόεσσα), a city which Herodotus (1.149) enumerates among the 11 cities of Aeolis; but nothing is known of it. Forbiger conjectures that the historian may mean Aegeirus (Αἴγειρος), in the island of Lesbos.

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