Doric Hexapolis

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Doric Hexapolis Δωρικὴ Ἑξάπολις
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-day Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey)
Government	Independent city-states
Historical era	Ancient Greece
• Established	c. 1100 BC
• Disestablished	c. 560 BC

The Doric or Dorian Hexapolis (

• Cos
  ;
• Cnidus in Caria
  ;
• Halicarnassus in Caria;
• Lindus, on the island of Rhodes;
• Ialysus on Rhodes; and
• Camirus on Rhodes.

The members of this hexapolis celebrated a festival, with games, on the

In the Digesta seu Pandectae (533), the second volume of the codification of laws ordered by Justinian I (527–565) of the Eastern Roman Empire, a legal opinion written by the Roman jurist Paulus at the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century in 235 AD was included about the Lex Rhodia ("Rhodian law") that articulates the general average principle of marine insurance established on the island of Rhodes in approximately 1000 to 800 BC as a member of the Doric Hexapolis, plausibly by the Phoenicians during the proposed Dorian invasion and emergence of the purported Sea Peoples during the Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 – c. 750) that led to the proliferation of the Doric Greek dialect.^[1][2][3] The law of general average constitutes the fundamental principle that underlies all insurance.^[2]

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Doris". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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