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AEOLIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Aeolia mean?
• AEOLIA (noun)
The noun AEOLIA has 1 sense:
1. an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC
Familiarity information: AEOLIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Aeolia; Aeolis
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)
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