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Aeolis

noun
1.
An ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC.  Synonym: Aeolia.






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... who had served under Cyrus. Thimbron, however, proved so inefficient a commander, that he was superseded at the end of 399 or beginning of 398 B.C., and Dercyllidas appointed in his place. But though at first successful against Pharnabazus in AEolis, Dercyllidas was subsequently surprised in Caria in such an unfavourable position that he would have suffered severely but for the timidity of Tissaphernes, who was afraid to venture upon an action. Under these circumstances an armistice ...
— A Smaller History of Greece • William Smith



Words linked to "Aeolis" :   seashore, seacoast, Lesbos, sea-coast, Asia Minor, Mytilene, Aeolia, Anatolia, Lesvos, coast



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