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.