Are Greeks and Italians similar genetically?


Are Greeks and Italians similar genetically? A study published last year by open-access preprint biological sciences repository bioRxiv discovered that there is a “high similarity between Southern Italy and the Peloponnese.” Put simply, this means that the modern populations of Southern Italy, Greece, and Cyprus share DNA similarities, according to the Greek City ...


What ethnicity are you if you are Greek?

The Greeks speak the Greek language, which forms its own unique branch within the Indo-European family of languages, the Hellenic. They are part of a group of classical ethnicities, described by Anthony D. Smith as an archetypal diaspora people.