Aeolis

[ ee-uh-lis ]

/ ˈi ə lɪs /

an ancient coastal region and Greek colony in NW Asia Minor: settled by Aeolians.

Also Aeolia.

Example sentences from the Web for aeolis

In Aeolis, of course, the centre of gravity moved to the Attalid capital, Pergamum.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 |Various
Pair of ear-rings, from a grave at Cyme in Aeolis, with filigree work and pendant Erotes.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4 |Various
In the coming century Cyme of Aeolis would give a wife to a Phrygian king.

The Ancient East |D. G. Hogarh
Secondly, Hesiod claims that his father—if not he himself—came from Aeolis and settled in Boeotia.

Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica |Homer and Hesiod

Aeolis in the eighth century must have differed very greatly from the city states of the sixth and fifth centuries.

The Heroic Age |H. Munro Chadwick

Aeolis

/ (ˈiːəlɪs) /

the ancient name for the coastal region of NW Asia Minor, including the island of Lesbos, settled by the Aeolian Greeks (about 1000 bc)