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Aeŏlis

Αἰολίς) or Aeolia. A district in Mysia in Asia Minor, and peopled by Aeolian Greeks. In early times, their twelve most important cities were independent, and formed a league— Cymé, Larissae, Neontichos, Temnus, Cilla, Notium, Aegirusa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Grynea, and Smyrna. Those cities were subsequently overcome by Croesus and incorporated in the Persian Empire under Cyrus. See Lesbos.

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