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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 429 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DORIS , in See also:

ancient See also:geography, a small See also:district in central See also:Greece, forming a See also:wedge between Mts. See also:Oeta and See also:Parnassus, and containing the See also:head-See also:waters of the Cephissus, which passes at the See also:gorge of Dadion into the neighbouring See also:land of See also: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 See also:prestige as the alleged See also:mother-See also:country of the Dorian conquerors of See also:Peloponnesus (see See also:DoRIANS). Its•history is mainly made up of See also:petty See also:wars with the neighbouring Oetaeans and Phocians. The latter pressed them hard in 457, when the Spartans, admitting their claim to be the Dorian See also:metropolis, sent an See also:army to their aid, and again during the second Sacred See also:War (356–346). Except for a casual mention of its cantonal See also:league in 196, Doris passed See also:early out of See also:history; the inhabitants may have been exterminated during the conflicts between See also:Aetolia and See also:Macedonia. See See also:Strabo, pp. 417, 427; See also:Herodotus i. 56, viii. 31; See also:Thucydides i. 107, iii. 92; Diodorus xii.

29, 33; W. M. See also:

Leake, Travels in See also:Northern Greece, See also:chap. xi. (See also:London, 1835). (M. O. B.

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