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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] Achill, Supercar already answered your parent question.-- Greeks did have indigenous European ancestry, but they also shared ancestry from the 'Near-East' primarily Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and African lineages as well. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Achillobator: [qb] I did a little more reading on the peopling of Greece, and I found one source that said that Greeks were descended from migrants moving westward from Turkey. Turkish people are not considered white. Does this make Greeks non-white? [/qb][/QUOTE]That depends. The people of Turkey are diverse themselves ranging from manyw who look "Middle-Eastern" specifically Syrian, and others who look Nordic with blonde hair and blue eyes although the latter types are rare. Just to give you a brief history on the peopling of Greece: The earliest known inhabitants of the Greek peninsula were hunter-gatherer types of paleo-European descent. Soon agriculture was introduced via migrations from the Near-East-- (Anatolia, Levant and Aegean Islands). Some of these agriculturalists carried West Asian lineages, while others carried African lineages. As such, Greeks are not as 'white' as many fantasize they were. Also, I know of many ancient Greek traditions that shared with peoples in the 'Near-East'. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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