# Canonical recap data for Dorian Invasion of Greece (1100)
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slug: dorian-invasion
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1100/dorian-invasion"
title: Dorian Invasion of Greece
subtitle: The Indo-European migrations that reshaped the Greek peninsula and triggered the Bronze Age collapse marked a civilizational turning point in the Mediterranean.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1100-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1100
decade: 1100
country:
name: Greece
slug: greece
summaryShort: The Dorian invasion is an ancient Greek myth and discredited archaeological hypothesis describing the movement of the Dorian people into the Peloponnese region of Greece. According to the myth, the Dorians migrated from central Greece shortly after the Trojan War and populated most of the southern Peloponnese, particul
summaryLong: The Dorian invasion is an ancient Greek myth and discredited archaeological hypothesis describing the movement of the Dorian people into the Peloponnese region of Greece. According to the myth, the Dorians migrated from central Greece shortly after the Trojan War and populated most of the southern Peloponnese, particularly the regions of Laconia, Messenia and the Argolid. The myth became combined with that of the Return of the Heracleidae, such that the descendants of the hero Heracles were imagined to have led the Dorians and founded the ruling lines of several Dorian cities, including Sparta. The myth probably emerged during the Early Iron Age as part of a process of ethnogenesis between cities claiming Dorian ancestry. In the fifth century BCE, it gained greater prominence through its use to promote unity among Sparta's Peloponnesian allies, and to differentiate Sparta from its rival Athens, believed to be of Ionian heritage.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Otfried_M%C3%BCller_Ternite.jpg/1280px-Otfried_M%C3%BCller_Ternite.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Dorian invasion"
importance: 76
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion"
  title: Dorian invasion
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- war
metaDescription: "The Dorian invasion is an ancient Greek myth and discredited archaeological hypothesis describing the movement of the Dorian people into the Peloponnese region "
wikidataQid: Q987129
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260526103648/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion"
  capturedAt: 2026-05-26
  label: Dorian invasion
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion"
