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Dorians
Dorians people of ancient Greece. Their name was mythologically derived from Dorus, son of Hellen . Originating in the northwestern mountainous region of Epirus and SW Macedonia, they migrated through central Greece and into the Peloponnesus probably between 1100 and 950 BC, defeating and displaci... Read more
Hellen
Hellen , in Greek mythology, ancestor of the Hellenes, or Greeks; son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeks—the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans, and the Aeolians. ... Read more
Achaea
Achaea , region of ancient Greece, in the northern part of the Peloponnesus on the Gulf of Corinth. It lay between Sicyon and Elis. There the Achaeans supposedly remained when driven from other parts of Greece by the Dorian invasion. The small Achaean cities eventually banded together in the First ... Read more
Achaeans
Achaeans people of ancient Greece, of unknown origin. In Homer, the Achaeans are specifically a Greek-speaking people of S Thessaly. Historically, they seem to have appeared in the Peloponnesus during the 14th and 13th cent. BC, and c.1250 BC they became the ruling class. There is no sharp line of ... Read more
Selinus
Selinus , ancient city of Sicily. It was founded (628? BC) by Dorian Greeks. The constant rival of neighboring Segesta, Selinus got Syracuse to interfere in a quarrel, which led to the unsuccessful Athenian expedition in Sicily (415-413 BC). Segesta invoked the aid of the Carthaginians, who sacked S... Read more
ephors
ephors [Gr.,=overseers], in ancient Greece, magistrates in several Dorian states. In Sparta they comprised an executive, legislative, and judicial board of five Spartan citizens. This annually elected board functioned from at least the 8th cent. BC until it was abolished (c.227 BC) by Cleomenes III... Read more
Mégara
Mégara , town (1991 pop. 25,061), E central Greece, on the Saronic Gulf. Wine, olive oil, and flour are produced. It is the site of the ancient town of Mégara, the capital of Mégaris, a small district between the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf. The Dorians who succeeded ... Read more
Aegina
Aegina or Aíyina , island (1991 pop. 12,430), 32 sq mi (83 sq km), off SE Greece, in the Saronic Gulf (or Gulf of Aegina), near Athens. Sponge fishing and farming (figs, almonds, grapes, olives, and pistachios) are the most important occupations. Tourism is also important. The chief town ... Read more
Toru Takemitsu
Toru Takemitsu , 1930-96, Japanese composer, b. Tokyo. Largely self-taught and particularly influenced by Debussy and Cage , Takemitsu successfully combined serial music and other techniques from Europe and the United States with traditional Japanese modalities. His music has a marked sensuous ... Read more
Ionia
Ionia , ancient region of Asia Minor. It occupied a narrow coastal strip on the E Mediterranean (in present-day W Turkey) as well as the neighboring Aegean Islands, which now mainly belong to Greece. In its favorable position between the civilizations to the west (e.g., the Greek Aegean) and to the ... Read more

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Dorians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Dorians people of ancient Greece. Their name was...conquered population. The arrival of the Dorians marked the disruption of the earlier Greek...decline. Although the cultural level of the Dorians was below that of the Achaeans, the Dorians...
Ionians
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...inhabitants of Attica, Boeotia, and Ionia . They spoke a dialect distinct from that of the Dorians and Aeolians. The hostility between Ionians and Dorians, neither regarding the other as fully Greek, appears in the contest between Athens and...
Ionia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Asia Minor from the mainland of Greece to escape the invading Dorians. Athens claimed to be the mother city of all the Ionian colonists...and their culture was always distinguished from that of the Dorians and Aeolians. There came to be 12 major cities—Miletus...
Greek architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Gate at Mycenae and palaces at Mycenae and Tiryns. When the Dorians migrated into Greece (before 1000 BC) true Hellenic culture...borrowed little from the preceding civilizations. In Greece the Dorians developed their building forms with such rapidity that between...
Doric
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...from Doris, a small district south of Thessaly from which the Dorians were conventionally supposed to have emigrated to the Peloponnese...southern and western Greece in historical times. Since the Dorians were regarded as uncivilized by the Athenians, ‘...
Rhodes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...tourist industry. History Rhodes was early influenced by the Minoan civilization of Crete and was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Árgos. By the 7th cent. BC it was dominated by the three city-states of Camirus, Lindus, and Ialysus...
Greek art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...civilization and the Mycenaean civilization —had developed complex and delicate art forms. Before 1000 BC invasions of Dorians and other barbarian tribes from the north laid waste the earlier Aegean cultures. While there was not the definite cultural...
Peloponnesus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...said to have been the builders of Mycenae and Tiryns ), the peninsula was later occupied by the Achaeans and then by the Dorians , who dominated the Peloponnesus in historic times. The chief ancient divisions of the Peloponnesus were Elis, Achaea, Argolis...
Doris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Doris small mountainous district, central Greece, inland between the Gulf of Corinth and the Malian Gulf. It was the traditional homeland of the Dorians, who may, in fact, have paused there during their invasion of Greece. Sparta gave Doris military aid during the 5th cent. BC
Bodrum
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...from the vaultlike ancient ruins that abound in the area. Originally it was called Halicarnassos by its first settlers, the Dorians from the Peloponnese (1000 b.c.e.). Bodrum was the birthplace of many famous Greek intellectuals, notably Herodotus...

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Dorians
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Dorians The tribes speaking the Doric dialect of...distinct in architecture and dialect, the Dorians retained their political system only in...local peoples as serfs and dependants. The Dorians were responsible for the oldest and simplest...
Doric
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...relating to or denoting the ancient Greek dialect of the Dorians. ∎  archaic (of a dialect) broad; rustic...order of architecture. 2. the ancient Greek dialect of the Dorians. ∎  a broad or rustic dialect, esp. the...
Mycenaean civilization
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...or Aegean civilization ) Greek culture that dominated mainland Greece from c. 1580 BC to c. 1120 BC, when the invading DORIANS destroyed the citadels of Mycenae and Tiryns. Another important Peloponnesian centre was Pylos, and Mycenaean influence spread...
Greece
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Greek-speaking peoples from the north. There followed the MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION which flourished until overthrown by the DORIANS at the end of the 12th century BC. After an obscure period of history (the Greek ‘Dark Ages’) the...
Ionian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...western Asia Minor, and the Aegean islands in pre-classical times. They were apparently displaced from some areas by the Dorians in the 11th or 12th century bc but retained their settlements in Attica, especially Athens, where they were responsible for...

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Sanborns buys Dorians for US$78.2mn.
Newspaper article from: Internet Securities; 12/20/2004; 585 words ; ...78.2 million) to buy the retail chain Dorians, which is based in the north of the country.Dorians, which has 68 stores and total sales area...California Sur, Sonora and Chihuahua. Dorians runs 11 department stores under that name...
The end of the Mycenaean age.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Greece and settled his children among the Dorians. Years later, his son Hyllus invaded southern Greece with the Dorians and killed Agamemnon's grandson, Tisamenus...exact, but the myth may explain how the Dorians came to Mycenae. Archaeologists would...
Greek traditions are alive and well SS Constantine and Helen marks 75 years of maintaining customs
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/19/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...a traditional Greek dance group, the Dorians, since she was 12. "I love it," Karas...and Georgia, 20, also dance with the Dorians. Karas said her friends respect her for...language. She has been director of the Dorians for 35 years. Her assistant and daughter...
A benefit with Mr. Right, and three other shows.(Ticket)(Four events help foster children, KLCC, Child Center and a cappella)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 2/6/2009; 700+ words ; ...sponsorship money. Divisi, On the Rocks, Dorians Saturday, South Eugene High Two collegiate...Saturday concert to raise money for the Dorians of South Eugene High School. Divisi and...auditorium starting at 7:30 p.m. The Dorians, an award-winning high school choral...
Was Plato antigay? (Essay).
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...are Cretan and Spartan, respectively, Dorians both, people who would hardly be likely...sorry to have the seed develop. Now the Dorians were an eminently serious tribe. Their...territory. The experience with which the Dorians are most unfamiliar, they would aver...
Dorian Blues
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 10/12/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...zwischen besinnlichen Momenten und schrillen Passagen, in denen Dorians Fantasie die Regie bernimmt und er sich mit wildem Geheul im...und Nackenschlge. Selbstironisch-melancholisch kommentiert Dorians Erzhlerstimme seinen holprigen Werdegang und liefert so eine...
Dorian - Pakt mit dem Teufel
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 6/1/2005; ; 572 words ; ...filmische Schauermr ihre Geschichte in Rckblenden aus der Sicht von Dorians vterlichem Freund Henry Wotton. Als Mordverdchtiger schildert...ail dem kein Psychodrama entsteht, liegt auch daran, dass Dorians Figur kontur- und farblos bleibt und Ethan Ericson daher auch...
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ON TAP AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/13/2009; 700+ words ; ...and everyone is welcome to attend. Thursday, Feb. 19 * "Noon Tunes" features The Dorians, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Roman Room. The Dorians are a popular Irish band. In keeping with the theme of the day, The Market Place offers...
Monday the day for music Variety the spice of ISU's Concerts on the Quad series
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 6/26/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...free on any ISU surface lot after 7 p.m. Schedule: The Dorians, Irish folk group, Monday; Dennis Stroughman and Creole...award- winning, Carbondale-based acoustic Irish band The Dorians, who specialize in Celtic ballads, jigs and other dance music...
Hall, Jonathan M. Hellenicity. Between Ethnicity and Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...the historicity of the Dorian invasion and makes the intriguing suggestion that "Dorians" may be derived from doron, Greek for "gift," whereby the Dorians would be characterized as a chosen people (p. 88). Chapter 4 persuasively opposes...