Aeolis, the Glossary
Aeolis (Aiolís), or Aeolia (Aiolía), was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands (particularly Lesbos), where the Aeolian Greek city-states were located.[1]
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- Asia (Roman province)
- States and territories disestablished in the 6th century BC
- States and territories established in the 8th century BC
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.
Aegiroessa
Aegiroessa or Aigiroessa (Αἰγιρόεσσα) was a city of ancient Aeolis, which Herodotus enumerates among the 11 cities of Aeolis; but nothing more is known of it.
Aeolia (mythical island)
Aeolia ('Αἰολία), the island kingdom of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, visited by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
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Aeolians
The Aeolians (Αἰολεῖς, Aioleis) were one of the four major tribes in which Greeks divided themselves in the ancient period (along with the Achaeans, Dorians and Ionians).
Aeolic Greek
In linguistics, Aeolic Greek, also known as Aeolian, Lesbian or Lesbic dialect, is the set of dialects of Ancient Greek spoken mainly in Boeotia; in Thessaly; in the Aegean island of Lesbos; and in the Greek colonies of Aeolis in Anatolia and adjoining islands.
Aeolis
Aeolis (Aiolís), or Aeolia (Aiolía), was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands (particularly Lesbos), where the Aeolian Greek city-states were located. Aeolis and Aeolis are ancient Greek geography, Asia (Roman province), states and territories disestablished in the 6th century BC and states and territories established in the 8th century BC.
Aeolus (son of Hippotes)
In Greek mythology, Aeolus (Αἴολος, Aiolos), the son of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
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Agora of Smyrna
The Agora of Smyrna, alternatively known as the Agora of İzmir (İzmir Agorası), is an ancient Roman agora located in Smyrna (present-day İzmir, Turkey).
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Aigai (Aeolis)
Aigai, also Aigaiai (Αἰγαί or Αἰγαῖαι; Aegae or Aegaeae; Nemrutkale or Nemrut Kalesi), was an ancient Greek, later Roman (Ægæ, Aegae), city and bishopric in Aeolis.
Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory. Aeolis and Anatolia are ancient Greek geography.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Ancient Macedonians
The Macedonians (Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece.
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Ancient regions of Anatolia
The following is a list of regions of Ancient Anatolia, also known as "Asia Minor," in the present day Anatolia region of Turkey in Western Asia.
See Aeolis and Ancient regions of Anatolia
Andriscus
Andriscus (Ἀνδρίσκος, Andrískos; 154/153 BC – 146 BC), also often referenced as Pseudo-Philip, was a Greek pretender who became the last independent king of Macedon in 149 BC as Philip VI (Φίλιππος, Philipos), based on his claim of being Philip, a now-obscure son of the last legitimate Macedonian king, Perseus.
Asia (Roman province)
Asia (Ἀσία) was a Roman province covering most of western Anatolia, which was created following the Roman Republic's annexation of the Attalid Kingdom in 133 BC.
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Attalus III
Attalus III (Ἄτταλος Γ΄) Philometor Euergetes (– 133 BC) was the last Attalid king of Pergamon, ruling from 138 BC to 133 BC.
Autolycus of Pitane
Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; c. 360 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer.
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Aydinids
The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (Modern Turkish: Aydınoğulları, Aydınoğulları Beyliği, آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی), also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin, was one of the Anatolian beyliks and famous for its seaborne raiding.
İzmir
İzmir is a metropolitan city on the west coast of Anatolia, and capital of İzmir Province.
See Aeolis and İzmir
Cilla (city)
Cilla or Killa (Κίλλα) was a town of ancient Aeolis and later of ancient Mysia, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, alongside the cities Chryse and Tenedus.
Confederation
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.
Croesus
Croesus (Lydian: 𐤨𐤭𐤬𐤥𐤦𐤮𐤠𐤮; Phrygian:; Kroisos; Latin: Croesus; reigned) was the king of Lydia, who reigned from 585 BC until his defeat by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 547 or 546 BC.
Cyclopes
In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; singular Cyclops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures.
Cyme (Aeolis)
Cyme (Κύμη) or Cumae was an Aeolian city in Aeolis (Asia Minor) close to the kingdom of Lydia. Aeolis and Cyme (Aeolis) are states and territories established in the 8th century BC.
Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (lit; translit), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula) and in Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (Helle), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.
Elias Venezis
Elias Venezis (Ηλίας Βενέζης) (March 4, 1904 - August 3, 1973) is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos, a major Greek novelist.
Gediz River
The Gediz River (Gediz Nehri), anciently known as the Hermus River (Ancient Greek: Έρμος), is the second-longest river in Anatolia flowing into the Aegean Sea.
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Gryneium
Gryneium or Gryneum or Gryneion (Γρύνειον), also Grynium or Grynion (Γρύνιον), Grynia or Gryneia (Γρύνεια) and Grynoi (Γρῦνοι), was a city of ancient Aeolis.
Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. Aeolis and Herodotus are ancient Greek geography.
Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories (Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
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Ionia
Ionia was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey. Aeolis and Ionia are states and territories disestablished in the 6th century BC.
See Aeolis and Ionia
Ionian League
The Ionian League (Ἴωνες, Íōnes; κοινὸν Ἰώνων, koinón Iōnōn; or κοινὴ σύνοδος Ἰώνων, koinē sýnodos Iōnōn; Latin: commune consilium), also called the Panionic League, was a confederation formed at the end of the Meliac War in the mid-7th century BC comprising twelve Ionian Greek city-states (a dodecapolis, of which there were many others).
Larissa Phrikonis
Larissa (Λάρισσα) or Larisa (Λάρισα) Phrikonis, also known as Larisa on the Hermos, was a city in the region of Aeolis in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
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Lesbos
Lesbos or Lesvos (Lésvos) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.
Lydia
Lydia (translit; Lȳdia) was an Iron Age historical region in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Aeolis and Lydia are Asia (Roman province) and states and territories disestablished in the 6th century BC.
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Myrina (Aeolis)
Myrina (Μυρίνα) was one of the Aeolian cities on the western coast of Mysia, about 40 stadia to the southwest of Gryneion.
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Mysia
Mysia (UK, US or; Μυσία; Mysia; Misya) was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor (Anatolia, Asian part of modern Turkey). Aeolis and Mysia are ancient Greek geography and Asia (Roman province).
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Neonteichos
Neonteichos (Νέον τεῖχος, lit. 'new wall'), was an Aeolian town not far from the coast of Mysia, situated between the Hermus and the town of Larissa, from which its distance was only 30 stadia.
Notion (ancient city)
Notion or Notium (Ancient Greek Νότιον, 'southern') was a Greek city-state on the west coast of Anatolia; it is about south of Izmir in modern Turkey, on the Gulf of Kuşadası.
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Odysseus
In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus (Odyseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Ottoman Turks
The Ottoman Turks (Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group.
Pergamon
Pergamon or Pergamum (or; Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis. Aeolis and Pergamon are Asia (Roman province).
Persians
The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.
Pitane (Aeolis)
Pitane (Πιτάνη), near Çandarlı, Turkey, was an ancient Greek town of the ancient region of Aeolis, in Asia Minor. Aeolis and Pitane (Aeolis) are ancient Greek geography.
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Regions of ancient Greece
The regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the Ancient Greeks of antiquity, shown by their presence in the works of ancient historians and geographers or in surviving legends and myths.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman province
The Roman provinces (pl.) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.
Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
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Seljuk dynasty
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids (سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire." or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture in West Asia and Central Asia.
Siege of Smyrna
The siege of Smyrna (December 1402) was fought between the Knights of Rhodes, who held the harbour and sea-castle of Smyrna (now İzmir) in western Anatolia, and the army of the Turco-Mongol emir Timur.
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Smyrna
Smyrna (Smýrnē, or Σμύρνα) was an Ancient Greek city located at a strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia.
Temnos
Temnos or Temnus (Τῆμνος; Τᾶμνος) was a small Greek polis (city-state) of ancient Aeolis, later incorporated in the Roman province of Asia, on the western coast of Anatolia.
Timur
Timur, also known as Tamerlane (8 April 133617–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Tzachas
Tzachas (Tzachás), also known as Chaka Bey (Çaka Bey),"Tzachas" is the Hellenized form of a Turkish name which does not appear in any historical documents, but was likely "Chaka", "Chagha", or "Chaqan".
Zephyrus
In Greek mythology and religion, Zephyrus (westerly wind), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi.
See also
Asia (Roman province)
- Aeolis
- Asia (Roman province)
- Asiarch
- Caloe
- Caria
- Ephesus
- Lydia
- Mysia
- Pergamon
- Pisidia
- Red Basilica
- Treaty of Apamea
- War of Aristonicus
States and territories disestablished in the 6th century BC
- Aeolis
- Babylonia
- Caria
- Chaldea
- Chao (state)
- Doric Hexapolis
- Elam
- Hallstatt culture
- Hurrians
- Ionia
- Kingdom of Judah
- Lycia
- Lydia
- Median kingdom
- Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Phoenicia
- Roman Kingdom
- Subartu
- Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
- Tyre, Lebanon
- Urartu
- Xu (state)
States and territories established in the 8th century BC
- Aeolis
- Cyme (Aeolis)
- Dʿmt
- Hallstatt culture
- Kingdom of Kush
- Roman Kingdom
- Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
- Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolis
Also known as Aeolian dodecapolis, Aiolida, Aiolis, Ancient Aeolis, Classical aeolis, Eolis.
, Seleucid Empire, Seljuk dynasty, Siege of Smyrna, Smyrna, Temnos, Timur, Turkey, Tzachas, Zephyrus.