Aeolian

People of ancient Greece, who established 12 cities along the coast of northwestern Asia Minor.

Near the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the Aeolians, deriving from Thessaly and Boeotia, planted their first settlements in Lesbos, and thence expanded northwards to Tenedos, and along the mainland coast to the east and south. The Aeolian settlements in the south were grouped together in a league, whose origin was problably religious. Its members were Aegae, Aegirusa, Cilla, Cyme, Gryneum (where the temple of Apollo was perhaps the central sanctuary of the league), Larisa, Myrina, Neonteichos, Pitane, Smyrna (later resettled by Ionians), and Temnos. The most important cities in the north were Antandros, Assos, Cebren, Gargara, Ilium, Neandria, and Scepsis.