Aetolia

American  

[ee-toh-lee-uh] / iˈtoʊ li ə /

noun

1. an ancient district in western Greece, now part of the province of Aetolia and Acarnania.

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Aetolia British  

/ iːˈtəʊlɪə /

noun

1. a mountainous region forming (with the region of Acarnania) a department of W central Greece, north of the Gulf of Patras: a powerful federal state in the 3rd century _bc . Chief city: Missolonghi. Pop (with Acarnania): 219 092 (2001). Area: 5461 sq km (2108 sq miles)

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Other Word Forms

• Aetolian adjective

Example Sentences

Such as he had rendered the country of Attica, formerly opulent and adorned, such, if he were suffered, would he render Aetolia and the whole of Greece.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus

The dialects of Locris, Phocis and Aetolia were a somewhat uncouth and unliterary form of Doric.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

He too, as it happens, is illustrating a primitive Old World, round the Aegean shores of Greece, by the contemporary West in the backwoods of Aetolia.

From The Unity of Civilization by Various

The whole of Acarnania, being situated between Aetolia and Epirus, faces towards the west and the Sicilian sea.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus

The old Countess-palatine of Aetolia was descended directly from a certain knight who treated his hostlers like princes.

From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli