I am Southern Italian...does this mean I have ancient greek ancestors?

Question

are my ancestors Romans and Greeks?

Answer 1

Possibly, however my dad's family is from Sicily, and there are a lot of Albanian's with my last name, we live in a place with a high number of Albanian Americans, a lot thing that we're Albanian because of our last name.... so those of southern Italian origin may very well be a mix of Roman, Greek, and Albanian.

Answer 2

Could also be many other things as Southern Italy and Sicily are in many ways the breeding grounds of the Meditterranean. At various times these areas were controlled by Greeks, Romans, Moors, Normans, Germans, Phoenecians to name some. No one is pure anything anyway so don't worry.

Answer 3

I am not a historian and history is not my interest at all. Anyway I had to be involve in this issue because the answers of some Greek fellows such as above will hurt every personality. It looks like that the dream of almost all Greeks is if the Macedonians "tie stones around the neck and take refreshing dive" as the fellow above recommended. As I know from professors of history, there are five different theories about the events 3000 years ago, and in many of those academic books, we find the word "no evidents" in every second page. Why nobody talks about the history 100 years ago, 200 years ago, but you choose to talk about something so far ago? Why many Greeks here have to say "uneducated" to the others? Tell me what do you know about the history of Former Yugoslavia?

Answer 4

Maybe. A friend's family comes from Sicily. He claims that everyone who paddled by in a boat stopped in and left genes there. So if an ancestor somewhere migrated north, you could have ancestors from anywhere within 500 miles of the Mediterranean.

Answer 5

It's quite possible. The Greeks had a significant colonial presence in southern Italy.

Answer 6

roman most likely or La Mano Nera

Answer 7

maybe