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What are Dorians?

What are Dorians? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A particular ancient Greek tribe.
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But, around 1100 BCE, the Mycenaeans were invaded by barbarians called Dorians and all their advances disappeared.
For the same reason the Dorians claim the invention both of Tragedy and Comedy.
Next in the town's history, another important event happened during the Mycenean period, when the Dorians tried to invade and take the control over the town.
Mller, in his Dorians, points out the inflexion of the Armenian verb-substantive.
Herodotus speaks of Ionians, Dorians, Herakleeidai, and Akhaians among the Greeks, that is, with aggregative self-definitions.
Ibycus was a native of Rhegium, a colony of mixed Ionians and Dorians.

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