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Thessaly
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synonyms: Θεσσαλία, Aeolia ???
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Definition:a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, [it] was known as Aeolia (Greek: Αἰολία, Aíolía), and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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the least moth in time eats the thickest cloth, and I have read that in a short space, there was a Town in Spain undermined with conies, in Thessaly with moles, with frogs in France, in Africa with flies.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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I shall be more jealous of thee than thou wert of that light-footed ingrate that made thee sweat and run so on the plains of Thessaly, or on the banks of the Peneus (for I do not exactly recollect where it was thou didst run on that occasion) in thy jealousy and love."
Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote
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