AEOLIS

''Alternative meaning: the Aeolis region of Mars.

'Aeolis' (Ancient Greek 'Αιολίς' '''Aiolís''') or 'Aeolia' () (Ancient Greek 'Αιολία' '''Aiolía''') was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor, mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands (particularly Lesbos), where the Aeolian Greek city-states were located. Aeolis incorporated the southern parts of Mysia which bounded it to the north, Ionia to the south, and Lydia to the east. In early times, the Aeolians' twelve most important cities were independent, and formed a league: Cyme (also called Phriconis), Larissae, Neonteichos, Temnus, Cilla, Notium, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegeaeae, Myrina, Gryneia, and Smyrna (Herodotus, 1.149).
According to Homer's description, Odysseus, after his stay with the Cyclopes, reached the island of Aeolus, who provided him with the west wind Zephyr.
Aeolis was an ancient district on the western coast of Asia Minor. It extended along the Aegean Sea from the entrance of the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles)south to the Hermus River (now the Gediz River). It was named for the Aeolians, some of whom migrated there from Greece before 1000 B.C. Aeolis was, however, an ethnological and linguistic enclave rather than a geographical unit. The district often was considered part of the larger northwest region of Mysia.
By the 8th century B.C., 12 of the southern Aeolian city-states were grouped together in a league. The most celebrated of the cities was Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), but in 699 B.C. , Smyrna became part of an Ionian confederacy. The remaining cities were conquered by Croesus, king of Lydia (reigned 560-546 B.C.). Later they were held successively by the Persians, Macedonians, Seleucids, and Pergamenes. Attalus III, the last king of Pergamum, bequeathed Aeolis to Rome in 133 B.C. Shortly afterward, it was made part of the Roman province of Asia. At the partition of the Roman Empire (395 A.D.), Aeolis was assigned to the East Roman (Byzantine) empire and remained under Byzantine rule until the early 1400's, when the Ottoman Turks occupied the area.
Author: P.R. Coleman-Norton, ''Princeton University''

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Natives of Aeolis

Bibliography

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Natives of Aeolis

★ Autolycus of Pitane

Bibliography

★ Pierluigi Bonanno, ''Aiolis. Storia e archeologia di una regione dell’Asia Minore alla fine del II millennio a.C.'', USA, 2006

External links

★ http://www.caropepe.it/pubblicazioni.html