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Doric Hexapolis Δωρικὴ Ἑξάπολις | |
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| c. 1100 BC–c. 560 BC | |
 Greek settlements in western Asia Minor, Doric area in blue | |
 Location of the Doric Hexapolis in Anatolia | |
| Capital | Halicarnassus (largest city) (modern-dayBodrum,Muğla,Turkey) |
| Government | Independent city-states |
| Historical era | Ancient Greece |
• Established | c. 1100 BC |
• Disestablished | c. 560 BC |
TheDoric orDorian Hexapolis (Ancient Greek:Δωρικὴ Ἑξάπολις or Δωριέων Ἑξάπολις) was afederation of six cities ofDorianfoundation in southwestAsia Minor and adjacent islands, largely coextensive with the region known asDoris orDoris in Asia (Δωρίς ἡ ἐν Ἀσίᾳ),[citation needed] and included:
The members of thishexapolis celebrated a festival, with games, on theTriopian promontory near Cnidus, in honour of the TriopianApollo; the prizes in those games were brazen tripods, which the victors had to dedicate in thetemple of Apollo; and Halicarnassus was struck out of the league, because one of her citizens carried the tripod to his own house before dedicating it in the temple of Apollo. Thehexapolis thus became theDoric Pentapolis. (Herod. i. 144.)
Pliny (v. 28) says,Caria mediae Doridi circumfunditur ad mare utroque latere ambiens, by which he means that Doris is surrounded byCaria on all sides, except where it is bordered by the sea. He makes Doris begin atCnidus. In the bay of Doris he placesLeucopolis,Hamaxitus,etc. An attempt has been made among scholars to ascertain which of two bays Pliny callsDoridis Sinus, the more probable being theCeramic Gulf. This Doris of Pliny is the country occupied by the Dorians, whichThucydides (ii. 9) indicates, not by the name of the country, but of the people: Dorians, neighbours of the Carians.Ptolemy (v. 2) makes Doris a division of hisAsia, and places in itHalicarnassus,Ceramus, andCnidus. The term Doris, applied to a part of Asia, does not appear to occur in other writers.
In theDigesta seu Pandectae (533), the second volume of thecodification of laws ordered byJustinian I (527–565) of theEastern Roman Empire, alegal opinion written by theRoman juristPaulus at the beginning of theCrisis of the Third Century in 235 AD was included about theLex Rhodia ("Rhodian law") that articulates thegeneral average principle of marine insurance established on the island ofRhodes in approximately 1000 to 800 BC as a member of the Doric Hexapolis, plausibly by thePhoenicians during the proposedDorian invasion and emergence of the purportedSea Peoples during theGreek Dark Ages (c. 1100 – c. 750) that led to the proliferation of theDoric Greekdialect.[1][2][3] The law of general average constitutes the fundamentalprinciple that underlies allinsurance.[2]
TITLE VII. ON THE LEX RHODIA. It is provided by theLex Rhodia that if merchandise is thrown overboard for the purpose of lightening a ship, the loss is made good by the assessment of all which is made for the benefit of all.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Doris".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.37°N28°E / 37°N 28°E /37; 28
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