An ancient region in northwestern Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) colonized by Greeks and named after Aeolus, characterized by its Aeolic Greek culture and dialect.
From Greek 'Aeolia,' the region named after Aeolus. Aeolis became a major center of Greek civilization, and its inhabitants spoke the Aeolic dialect of ancient Greek.
Aeolis was one of the great cultural crossroads of the ancient world—Sappho, one of history's greatest poets, came from the island of Lesbos in Aeolis, making it a center of classical literature.
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