especially in the south...Egyptian? Persian? What?
2006-12-26 12:10:02 · 8 answers · asked by JOLIE69 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Apart from Italy and the Roman Empire, they came from numerous sources (including the Terramare)
Look at the links
2006-12-26 12:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by Mike J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Italians have some varying physical characteristics, a fact that may result from the ancient settlement of the peninsula by ethnically different peoples other than the original native Italic tribes. The Gauls in the north, the Etruscans in Central Italy (Tuscany and parts of Umbria and Latium) and the Greeks in the south preceded the Romans, who in turn "Latinized" the whole country and preserved unity until the 5th century AD. Jewish settlements were established in Italy as early as the Roman Republic and survive to the present day.
2006-12-26 14:00:35 · answer #2 · answered by aidan402 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a common myth that there were native people in Italy, Greece, Spain, or France. Then over the centuries, other people came whooshing in. So today there are none of the original people.
The truth is very different. The people of southern Italy, "the two Sicilies," are very much today as they were before the rise of Rome 2500 years ago. Rome itself had 500,000 people in the time of Caesar Augustus. How many do you think they had to spare to flood Sicily? Talking about Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, and Vandals, each of these were at most 40,000 to 60,000 people. The Arabs boiled out of what is now Saudi Arabia about 650 a.d. and conquered the middle east, north africa, and spain. A few ended up on Sicily. But considering the population of Saudi Arabia today, how thinly they must have spread themselves, no matter their military influence. So the conclusion must be that the populations of all these countries I mentioned must be "almost" the same today as they were before Julius Caesar.
2006-12-26 13:24:18 · answer #3 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mike J gave a good answer. Check wiki. Yet, most of them are descendants of Romans, Greeks, Albanians and Croats.
2006-12-26 12:44:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they came from Italy
2006-12-26 12:17:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
italian
2006-12-26 12:17:20 · answer #6 · answered by fukuoka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wouldn't the answer be ITALY??
2006-12-26 12:18:11 · answer #7 · answered by Asia_Unscripted 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look in wipidiea
2006-12-26 12:14:18 · answer #8 · answered by qtangel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋