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particularly up towards the straits and the Bosporus
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and the Sea of Marmara.
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I might point out that the way the Greeks did their immigration
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into Asia Minor actually had a pattern
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so that you can go from north to south
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and you will find some consistency. Here's what I mean.
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The northern most settlements on that coast
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spoke Greek with an Aeolian dialect;
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the Aeolian dialect
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is the one that you see on the mainland in places
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like Boeotia for instance Thebes and so on.
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South of the Aeolian section of that