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n. - Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).

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  • Aegean Sea, about 70 miles north of Smyrna, in the district anciently called Aeolis, and also Mysia.
  • Peloponnesus, retired into the country of Aeolis, which is now called by the names of the towns Calydon and Pleuron, and to other places in the neighbourhood; also to...
  • Meanwhile Eurylochus and his companions, finding that this force had entered and that it was impossible to storm the town, withdrew, not to Peloponnese, but to the country once...
  • Aeolis, where he was a seafaring trader and, perhaps, also a farmer.
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