are modern Greeks of middle Eastern decedent?

Question

descendant

Answer 1

Pretty much, although the Turks occupied the place for about 600 years, so there is probably a bit of Turkish blood mixed in. Even before that, Greece was part of the Byzantine and Roman empires, so there would be a fair bit of mixing there as well.

Answer 2

The Greeks arrived in what is modern Greece 2500 years ago. They are Europeans. They speak and Indo-European language. They are not middle easterners. Slavic tribes occupied most of the country from 600-1000 AD. Parts of the south and the islands by European, mainly French and Italians from 1205-1400. Crete was ruled by Venice from 1205-1650. Turks occupied Greece for 400-450 years except for some island owned by Venice on the wetern side. So there were bound to be mixing. However the Greeks still look distinct, though how much to their ancestors 2500 years ago is a good question. .

The Turks are a salad bowl, The DNA of Turkey is mostly NOT Turkish. Modern day Turkey is the result of a population whose languages changed from Greek, Armenian and other languages to Turkish; and religion from Christian to Muslim from 1200-1600. Nonetheless Turkey in 1910 was 25% Christian..

Answer 3

The origins of the Greeks are a matter of considerable scholarly disagreement. Various theories have their origins in India as a group from the early Dravidian culture there. The argument is made that they are proto-Egyptian or that they are a Jewish tribe that departed Egypt prior to the time of Moses. All the arguments that can be made are intriguing but none is definitive.

Since ancient times the Greeks first created their own empires and then spread even further under Alexander. Subsequently they were conquered, in whole or in part, by Romans, Serbians, and Turks, to name just a few.

The answer to your question is that no one really can accurately state from what people or region modern Greeks descend.

Answer 4

Actually, Middle Easterners, people from Balkans, Southern Italy, Sicily, people that live on the coasts of Mediterranean and the Black Sea are decedent from ancient and medieval Greeks.

Think about it, we have been around more years. We founded Marseilles (Massalia) when the french were living in villages. We founded Alexandria and created its library when Arabs didn't even had an alphabet. We founded Constantinople when Turks were living in the mother land Mongolia and they were eating each other.

PS. The Turkish tribes that invaded Europe and the middle east where looking like Mongols. By changing, by force, the religion of the people of Asia minor (today = Turkey) they easily mixed with them but they lost their original genetically characteristics because the people of Asia minor (Greeks, Arabs,Armenians,Kurds,Jews) where more than them.
Check how the cousins of Turks in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan look like.

Now, who is decedent from whom ?

Answer 5

Europeans make very very little of their own genes. Caucsaoid race evolved in the Middle Easterners in places like the Iranian plateau, Turkey, and Lower Caucauses. Europeans have a very early history (Greeks bing the exception), and are not a 'race' - they belong to the greater Caucaoid race (and they are hardly an ethnic group, considering populations like Turkey and Persia are on a genetic continuiim with other Europeans.

Answer 6

Western Middle Easterns might be of modern Greek decendants.

Answer 7

will pretend not to see the way you spell.
population of continental Greece descend from the ancient Greeks who inhabited there.Greek islands of the egean sea had since ever people sharing turkish and Middle east ancestors.

Answer 8

Pretty much yes.But you mean descent - decedent has an altogether different meaning

Answer 9

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