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Dorian

adjective

Of or relating to the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris, to their Doric dialect of Greek, or to their culture.

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... under the name of the Chalcidian towns, included in Italy Cumae with the other Greek settlements at Vesuvius and Rhegium, and in Sicily Zankle (afterwards Messana), Naxos, Catana, Leontini, and Himera. The Achaean group embraced Sybaris and the greater part of the cities of Magna Graecia. The Dorian group comprehended Syracuse, Gela, Agrigentum, and the majority of the Sicilian colonies, while in Italy nothing belonged to it but Taras (Tarentum) and its offset Heraclea. On the whole the preponderance lay with the immigrants ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

Words linked to "Dorian" : citizenry, Greek, Doris, people, Dorian order, Hellene