DORIAN HELLENIC

According to Herodotos, the Makednoi (Macedonians) who crossed Doris and
moved to the Peloponnese, taking up the name Dorians. The Dorians who formed
the Macedonian state came in contact with the local Pelasgic population whose size
was much smaller than the one residing at the sea shores and the islands of
Southern Greece.
It is for this reason that German historian K. Belloch considered the Macedonians
the purest Greeks of any other part of Greece. The Dorians (Makednoi) of
Macedonia were larger in number than those who moved southwards. Such a place of permanent residence for some Makednoi (Dorians) was Doris. When these Dorians (known until then as Makednoi only) moved to the Peloponnese, they became known there as Dorians (that is, the people [coming] from Doris).
Herodotus mentions that the "people now called the Dorians" were neighbors of the Pelasgians. According to Herodotus (Herodot, Book I, 56.3) the Dorians acquire their name on the way to Peloponnesus.
The people they displaced gathered at Athens under a leader Ion and became identified as "Ionians".
Most conspicuous among the Dorians as related by Herodotus were the Lacedaemonians, or Spartans of Lakonia, one of whose archaic legendary kings was named Dōrieus. The military Spartans, under Leonidas, including the famous 300 soldiers, sacrificed themselves to delay the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Herodotus' list of Dorian states is as follows. From northeastern Greece were Phthia, Histiaea and Macedon. In central Greece were Doris (the former Dryopia) and in the south Peloponnesus, specifically the states of Lacedaemon, Corinth, Sicyon, Epidaurus, Troezen and Hermione. Dorians also colonised Crete including founding of such towns as Lato(Ancient Greek: Λατώ) was an ancient Dorian city of Crete, birthplace of Nearchos the Admiral of Alexander the Great, Dreros and Olous. Many other Greek colonies east & south Greece are also included.