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The Hellenes, as the Greeks of Classical times called themselves,traced their ancestors back to Thessaly, then ruled by Deucalion’s Descendants Hellen, the war-loving king, and his sons Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus’, and to southern MACEDONIA where Magnes and Macedon, delighting in horses, lived in the area of Olympus and Pieria’;… Extensive excavation has shown that the mainland experienced large-scale invasions c.2000-1700 B.C.;… The last wave of Greeks, those represented by the ancestor Dorus, entered Greece in the century c.1125 – c.1025, their dialects being Dorian and north-west Greek. As they came from the areas of Epirus and Western MACEDONIA, it seems likely that the reservoir of Greek-speaking peoples from which these waves of invasion spread was situated c.2000 B.C. in Albania and in WESTERN AND SOUTHERN MACEDONIA.