Leleges

The Leleges were one of the aboriginal peoples of Greece, the Aegean and southwest Anatolia (compare "Pelasgians"), who were already to be found there when the Indo-European Hellenes arrived. The name Leleges is probably a Greek term itself and not an autonym, or a name these people applied to themselves. According to Apollodorus the name was derived from an eponymous king named Lelex; a comparable etymology, memorializing a legendary founder, is provided by Greek mythographers for virtually every tribe of Hellenes, however.

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Aegean: Aegean may refer to...

Anatolia: Anatolia (Greek: ανατολή anatolē or anatol?) is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. It means "rising of the sun" or "East", is also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, and is sometimes falsely associated w...

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