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AEOLIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC
Synonyms:
Aeolia; Aeolis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)
Meronyms (parts of "Aeolia"):
Lesbos; Lesvos; Mytilene (an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry)
Holonyms ("Aeolia" is a part of...):
Anatolia; Asia Minor (a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey)
