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Encyclopedia Britannica



DORIS

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 429 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DORIS , in ancient geography, a small
district
  in central
Greece
 , forming a wedge between Mts. Oeta and
Parnassus
 , and containing the head-waters of the Cephissus, which passes at the gorge of Dadion into the neighbouring
land
  of
Phocis
 . This little valley, which nowhere exceeds 4 M. in breadth and could barely give sustenance to four small townships, owed its importance partly to its command over the strategic road from Heracleia to Amphissa, which pierced the
Parnassus
  range near Cytinium, but chiefly to its prestige as the alleged
mother
 -country of the Dorian conquerors of Peloponnesus (see
DoRIANS
 ). Itshistory is mainly made up of
petty
  wars with the neighbouring Oetaeans and Phocians. The latter pressed them hard in 457, when the Spartans, admitting their claim to be the Dorian metropolis, sent an army to their aid, and again during the second Sacred War (356346). Except for a casual mention of its cantonal league in 196, Doris passed early out of history; the inhabitants may have been exterminated during the conflicts between Aetolia and Macedonia.
See Strabo, pp. 417, 427;
Herodotus
  i. 56, viii. 31;
Thucydides
  i. 107, iii. 92; Diodorus xii. 29, 33; W. M. Leake, Travels in Northern
Greece
 , chap. xi. (London, 1835). (M. O. B. C.)


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