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Aiolians

The greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene.

Perseus: Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920)
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Methymna, the second town in Lesbos, was under a democracy, Mytilene under an oligarchy

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