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The protohellenic tribes

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A lot of the information concerning the movements of populations in the area of Hellas, were maintained in the people's tradition through mythology. That's how Herodotus (History) and Thucydidis (Archaeology-History) learned that kind of information. Thukydidis is the most detailed source of info for us, and many of his sayings were verified by relative archaeological findings. So, based on Thoukydidis and with the combination of existing archaeological evidence we can have a quite good picture concerning the movements of populations in the area of Hellas.

Even by the time of the Early Bronze Age (2800-1900BC) some non-hellenophon indo-european tribes had moved in the area (Aemones, Pelasgoi, Dryopes). The main group of Hellenophon indo-european (Protohellenes) people was settled in the area of Thessalia, W.Macedonia and Epiros at about 2100-1900BC. That's where the basic dialectical differences of those people's common language were formed. During the Middle Bronze Are (1900-1600BC), while in Crete we have a remarkable civilization's development and the spread of the Minoan trade all over the E. Mediterranean, in the Greek mainland we have a limitation of the communications, and the come-back of the closed farming economy, caused by the appearance of the protohellenic tribes. There were no walls around the settlements as it is concluded by the archaeological research and also mentioned by Thukydidis.

Basically we can divide these protohellenic tribes into 3 groups, based on their location:

1:SW group (in NW Thessaly), Iones
2:Eastern group (in W Macedonia), Arcadian dialect, Aeolean dialect
3:Western group (in N Epirus), Makednoi and others
Around 1900BC the Iones lived in the areas of NW Thessalia, and later moved to Evoia, Attica and Peloponnissos, and afterwards the Achaeans, Lapithes form the eastern group. Later they developed the Mycenaec civilization. They further expanded to the Aegean islands and Asia Minor, and destroyed Troia after the Trojan War. The movement of the Dorians to the South, that occurred later (11th century BC) led the Iones, basically of Attica, to move to SW Asia Minor (1st colonization), where they created a colony (Militos) and gave the name Ionia to that area. In 1200BC the Thessalians pressured the Voiotoi who moved from their original home Arni, between Epiros and Thessalia, to the South and settled near Attica, in a place that was later named as Voiotia. According to Thukydidis that happened 60 years after the Trojan War.

Meanwhile the Makednoi, of the western group, were split into 4 groups:

One group that settles in Dorida (Dorians)
One group that moves from Dorida to Peloponnissos
One group that moves to Thessaly
The Macedonians that settle in Macedonia
Those movements of the Makednoi are described by Herodotus:

"...For in the days of king Defkalion it (i.e. a Makednian tribe) inhabited the land of Phthiotis, then in the time of Doros, son of Hellin, the country called Histaeotis, under Ossa and Olympus; driven by the Cadmeians from this Histaeotis country it settled in Pindos with the name Makednoi; thence again it migrated to Dryopida, and at last came from Dryopida into Peloponnissos, where it took the name Dorians..."
Herodotus I,56,3
Historian, 484-426BC

Because of the mountains of Ossa, Olympos and Kamvounia the Macedonians lived geographically isolated from the other Greeks until the 8th century BC. During the 7th-6th century BC they spread to the East, crossed the Axios river, and entered Chalkidiki.

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