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Milesia, Milesian, Milesians, or Miletans may refer to: * Milesians (Irish), a people figuring in Irish mythology * Milesians (Greek), the inhabitants of Miletus, a city in the Anatolia province of modern-day Turkey *
Milesian school The Ionian school of Pre-Socratic philosophy was centred in Miletus, Ionia in the 6th century BC. Miletus and its environment was a thriving mercantile melting pot of current ideas of the time. The Ionian School included such thinkers as Thales, ...
, a school of thought founded in the 6th century BC and exemplified by three philosophers from Miletus * Milesian tale, a genre of salacious or exotic narrative * ''Milesia'' (fly), a genus of very large hoverflies {{disambiguation