Editing Dorians (section)

===Post-migrational distribution of the Dorians===
[[File:Lato - Prytaneion 01.jpg|thumb|Dorian site of [[Lato]] on the island of Crete]]
Though most of the Dorians settled in the Peloponnese, they also settled on [[Rhodes]] and [[Sicily]] and in what is now Southern Italy. In Asia Minor existed the [[Doric Hexapolis|Dorian Hexapolis]] (the six great Dorian cities): [[Halikarnassos]] (Halicarnassus) and [[Knidos]] (Cnidus) in [[Asia Minor]], [[Kos]], and [[Lindos]], [[Kameiros]], and [[Ialyssos]] on the island of Rhodes. The six cities would later become rivals with the [[Ionia]]n cities of Asia Minor. The Dorians also settled [[Crete]]. The origin traditions remained strong into classical times: [[Thucydides]] saw the [[Peloponnesian War]] in part as "Ionians fighting against Dorians" and reported the tradition that the [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracusans]] in Sicily were of Dorian descent.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=7.57| title = 7.57| access-date = 12 November 2006| archive-date = 24 March 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070324003505/http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=7.57| url-status = dead}}</ref> Other such "Dorian" colonies, originally from Corinth, Megara, and the Dorian islands, dotted the southern coasts of Sicily from Syracuse to Selinus. Also [[Taranto|Taras]] was a Spartan colony.<ref name=EB1911>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Dorians |volume=8 |page=425}}</ref>