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Aeolia

  [ee-oh-lee-uh]
Aeolia: see Aeolis.
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Both are so-named because Thessaly was held to be the earlier homeland of the Aeolian people, but during the Dorian Invasion they fled across the Aegean Sea to Anatolia and founded Aeolis there.

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