AEOLIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 "Aeolis"):

Lesbos; Lesvos; Mytilene (an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry)

Holonyms ("Aeolis" is a part of...):

Anatolia; Asia Minor (a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey)