Dukes. I. A District Of Greece, now belonging to the nomarchy of Phthiotis and Phocis, a small mountainous region, watered by the Pin-dus; anciently one of the smallest divisions of Hellas, inhabited by the Dorians, and bounded by Thessaly, Phocis, Locris, and AEtolia. Of its four confederate cities, the so-called Tetrapolis, built at the foot of Mount OEta. none was adorned by great names or events. They were soon destroyed by hostile neighbors and were in ruins in the time of the Romans. II. In Asia Minor, a portion of the coast of Caria, settled by Dorians. It formed a part of a confederacy originally consisting of six cities, most of them on the neighboring islands, and known as the Dorian hexapolis, which, though dependent at every period of history on some larger state, had a place of national assembly on the promontory of Triopium, where festivals and games were celebrated, and common affairs discussed. Halicarnassus and Cnidus were the most important towns; the former, however, was early excluded from the league, which from a hexapolis thus became a pentapolis.