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The Aeolians were one of the three ancient Greek tribes. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca The name comes from the fact that they were considered to be descended from Aeolus (whose father Hellen was the mythological patriarch of all Hellenes). For the Click beetle Genus, see Aeolus (beetle. Aeolus ( Greek:, Ailos Modern Greek Note Hellen was not the same person as Helen of Troy, or Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy. The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore" Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a Pater familias over an extended family The Greeks ( Greek: Έλληνες) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions

Originating in Thessaly, they moved their location when the Dorians were attacking the Achaeans and then abandoned most of the Mycenaean territories. Thessalia redirects here For the Butterfly Genus, see Thessalia (butterfly. The Dorians or Dorian Greeks ( Greek:, Dōrieis singular, Dōrieus were The Aeolians took over some of the abandoned territory and built few cities on islands near Asia Minor. Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black They began building these cities well after the Mycenaeans were defeated, and gave rise to the Aeolian dialect of the Greek language. Aeolic Greek (also known as Lesbian Greek) is a linguistic term used to describe a set of rather archaic Greek sub- Dialects spoken Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly

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