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lol actual genetical research shows that greeks were far from the first europeans

@Georgios Chardavellas Exactly.. I'm blonde, green eyes, quite white...i'm a mixture of Greek, Bulgarian, Cypriot and Iranian. While there is that typical Greek look in many Greek men i see here, I would consider this more like a byproduct of centuries of ethnic mixing. Bulgarians are considered Slavs but by appearance they are more close to Greeks and Turks. Also I'd like to point out that the Middle East doesn't necessarily mean dark hair and brown eyes. Probably that was true 2000 years ago but not anymore. Also, i don't know where do you live in Greece but I was born in and raised in Athens and I'm pretty accustomed to how a typical Greek person looks like here but when I moved to study in Thessaloniki and after few months exploring the area, it was evident that the Greeks up there look nothing like the Greeks down here. Up there you see more light hair, more blue eyes, the face features are less chiseled. They look closer to Bulgarians and Turks. It's hard to explain it really but to me the difference is huge since I travel often around and outside Greece and I get to see a bigger picture of the puzzle.

please show me that 'actual genetical research' i am truly interested. some links, references etc would be appreciated. define 'european', first of all @@911Maci

I can see a meme coming from this. Greek guy: I was European before it was cool 😂

i want to come to magna grecia so bad! the most people there have Greek DNA good luck brother! greetings from Greece!

What about the northerner Greeks with the North Italians? What do you feel there!

You guys are Albanians, and even the Greeks that went to Sicily and South Italy were Albanians from the Greece. There is a reason why they still speak Albanian even tho they call themselves "Greci". Abruzzo, Basilicata, Molise, Calabria, has so many of Albanian descendent.

@@aleks9014 Omg!!! You Albanien what are you guys smoking? Enough with your fake propaganda that they teach you in school. Go educate yourself. You can't rewrite history! You guys are of Turkish decent. That explains the hate. 😂

@@aleks9014 You people are crazy, you think everything and everyone is Albanian.

thank you Brother !!!

Thanks but no thanks! The Arab Egyptians effectively kicked out thriving Greek communities in many Egyptian cities out of the region in various immoral ways. Not that I expect better from any government, including the Greek.

Here at the Art Museum I was very amused to see an inscription bearing the name "Ptolemaios" (Ptolemy) written in Ancient Egyptian "Hieroglyphics". The Ptolemies ruled Egypt for 300 years, until Cleopatra and Marc Anthony, while having a bigger and stronger fleet than the ROmans, left the battlefield and lost Egypt to the Romans. The first Ptolemy was a good general of Alexander and was a good ruler, but at the end of the 300 years they taxed the Egyptian farmers too much and the once very wealthy country was not prospering.

@anastassiosperakis2869 Indeed , when Alexnader the great conquered Egypt ..Egypt was already occupied by the Persians, He asked to be crowned as a Pharoh he was seen positively as a liberator as Greece and Egypt had a histroy to trading and many anceint greek scholars used to head to Egypt for Education ...we Egyptians were occupied pretty much by every Empire yet the most awful and brutal occupiers were the Ottomans & the Romans

@@anastassiosperakis2869 isn't that the fateful course of increasing bureaucracy? It happens everywhere and during any time in human history.

Alexander The Great was a Macedonian. See Greek History.

Alexander the Great was Macedonian, that is what I only know.

The name Skopje (Albanians say Peskopje) comes from the Greek word Episkopi, which in Greek means Bishop's seat

@@TimothyClarksonJr Macedonia is an Ancient Kingdom of Greece! Greece at the time was divided as the concept of a unified country did not exist in those times! There is a recent Slavic country called North Macedonia in the North of Greece, but they named it like this after the fall of the ex Yugoslav Republic and they used the Ancient name of Macedonia in order to arrogate the Ancient Greek culture and create border issues because they thought they can conquer the original Macedonia and make it Slavic! Thankfully this issue has been solved since 2018 where an agreement that actually changed the Constitutiuon of North Macedonia and stopped the miaappropriation of Greek symbols and culture. They cannot claim anynmore to be the original Macedonians"as these people are Slavic and came to the region more than 800 years later that Alexander the Great!

@@koukariotis and when did that happened?

Well, good

The name Macedonia is greek. But our stupid government gave it away

Macedonia is Greece NORTHERN Macedonian (according to the treaty of Prespes) can be called Northern Macedonia, however, the historical events involving Macedonia (for example Alexander the Great) must not be linked with northern Macedonia but with Greek history and Greece's part of Macedonia

@Kafa kafica again you how many times do we have to teach you a lesson ?

@Kafa kafica even if l did answer you, you wouldn't believe me anyways since you learnt what communists told you

SamytheGreek Yeap, the Ottomans really messed around with the middle east. Turns out that they had even resettled Slavs in Lebanon.

97 PERCENT! HOLY SPANAKOPITA!

theo peri no, you don't understand, the benchmark for Greek is set to 100% , and all other dna results are set against the Greek. So a 97% Greek result, indicates the one is almost Greek.

and you are right to be proud...salute from greece!

@@gamotheos 😂😂😂

❤

Capogreco does not translate to head of the greeks, rather than 'greek head' meaning she had the greek look.

Magna Graecia, South Italy plus Sicily! Ρήγιον (Rigion) --> Reggio! Νεάπολις (Neapolis) --> Napoli! etc etc. We are brothers and sisters dear lady.

@@akillas-fd6fe That's very interesting. Thank you.

Greece that lovely country

Do greeks visit any other country apart from Greece? Seems like no other country matters.....

Yep they do

@@jimmuleta2985 yes , but many go to see family is why they travel there more often

@@jimmuleta2985 Ofc we visit other countries but when your country is the most beautiful, the most impressive, the most stunning, the one with the most important & rich history on the planet & finally the one that has the best & more tasty cuisine in the world, well if you were Greek you would agree in that case that Gods have blessed Greece more than any other country in the world, it's paradise on earth.

Zoe Kouf The story we were taught is that the Cretans (philistines) established several cities along the coast of Canaan They were good sea people and warriors. Goliath in the Bible was one of them. With time they blended in with the Canaanites and many others. It’s just fascinating now how their DNA proves that history.

@@Anonymouse166 goliath was a greek? That's amazing if true

poro poro Goliath was a Philistine and most historians say Philistines came from Greece. I guess you could say he’s Greek or Greek origin.

I've heard a lot of Palestinians say that they can trace their genetic history back to the Greeks somewhat, is this true?

UB3RFR3NZY I will tell you about my own analysis about my DNA maybe will give you an idea. First I am from a moslem family, so any non moslem mix probably an old DNA. Here is what I think happened in time order. I have ancient Levantine DNA 9 percent, Greek 21 percent, Caucasus 21 percent, Arabian 13 percent, North African Berber 11 percent, Central Asian 13 percent and finally European Ashkenazi 10 percent, layers and layers. I think most people in the area that don’t have a strong outside look (recent immigrants like the Bedouins) would have similar results. I think it’s fascinating. Greeks had a strong presence in our history but they weren’t the only ones.

Kalispera from Grexican :)

Καλησπέρα from a Greek who can speak Italian and maybe a bit spanish

Greetings from a Hellene,who respect the Amerindians....the true Americans,may the god give your country back!!!

Καλή σου μέρα τρελέ. Τα καλύτερα σου εύχομαι.

Dale las gracias a Google traductor y buenas noches que diga kalispera.

You will not be european your more closer to Indian than european

@@loodi3138 i never said i was european i am proud to be Iranian look at my profile picture its Iranian mythology. I have nothing to do with Europe, i am from Asia. Most of Asia is influenced by Persian culture. Iran and Greece had some legendary battles, India was never a strong empire.

It's ok Alexander Alexandros in Greek mean he who pushes the men away the strong warrior!

@@loodi3138 Iranians are Aryans, so are Northern Indians. The Aryans split into two major groups, one group traveled through Bactria, crossing the Hindu Kush and settling in the Indus valley later descending further south into the Gangetic basin while the other group went and settled in Western Iran. This is why you will notice a lot of physical similarities between the Iranian and North Western Indian people, the further south and east you go into India the more the Aryan gene gets diluted. There are cultural similarities as well. Iran was called "Ērānsahr" in ancient times meaning "Land of the Aryans" while northern India was called "Āryāvarta" which also means "Land of the Aryans" establishing the cultural as well as genetic connection between the Indo-Aryans and Iranian peoples.

​​@@loodi3138 lol. Shut up uneducated troll

Love from a New Yorker your loved bless you

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im greek from levant we are greeks orthsox in levant we about 7 or 13 mlieon in the world

buddy got the nationalistic greek pfp 💀💀

Based​@@OneTwo_1028

I'm Southern Italian too we all have at least some Greek blood.

Those online ancestry sites make all mediteranean people greek lol

Sicily was a Greek colony so its not surprising.

That's because the Greeks colonized Sicily. Isn't there a Greek city still in Sicily that has Greek architecture as if it were in Greece?

@@hecatombhenbaneharuspex6303 and no brain

@Lazy Greek Stereotype thank you brother!

Thank you Algerian

Love and respect from Greece.Many wishes for prosperity and democracy to the heroic people of Algeria!

We Love ALGERIA , Thanks

that is because you desecrnd from greek invaders and have nothing to do with the black pyramid builders that lived there and still live in the south of your country like Aswan.

Iranians have absolutely nothing to do with Greeks

@@christostomas889 say something more intelligent in reply. Please expound.

@@christostomas889 δεν ξερεις ιστορια... dont worry friend Ali, Christos above is totally useless in history. Anyone who has the least historical knowledge knows that Iran is for sure connected to the ancient Greek civilization, most know by Alexander the Great (Escander if I pronounce it correctly, in the language spoken there), many statues of him because it is said he was very respectfull of the land he went on.

The way I see it is that during the early Middle Ages, the Greek Romans and the Iranian Sassanids could not come to terms of peace, but only temporarily, over and over. This failure to come to a permanent peace depopulated Anatolia and weakened both sides creating an immense power vacuum which was consequently filled by invading Muslim Arabic tribes from the south and later, Turkic and mostly Islamic tribes from the east. For ancient Iran and it’s Persian culture to be conquered and replaced by that of tribal, Arabic herdsmen had to have been it’s most humiliating defeat. Iran accepted Islam and found her freedom in but a few things such as poetry, a great outlet in exchange for her past freedoms and advanced civilization. For the two cultures to combine and for Persian society to accept Islam is probably, in my own opinion now, never really achievable. I don’t think the Iranian people will ever come to terms in surrendering their past advanced civilization to what they are following today. The Greek’s humiliating defeat by Turkic tribesmen was later, and a much slower, torturous defeat taking centuries, but was still much from the depopulation of Anatolia, it’s food, man power [military] and tax base. Two great ancient civilizations of art, science, and culture taken down by herdsmen, but not destroyed.

​@@christostomas889Eurocentrist Hollywood spotted

And love to Greece from an American Indian!

Greeks and Mexicans have the most vibrant cultures. Music, dance, food, art, joy of life. No other cultures do it better, nor have so many aspects at the highest levels. Zito!

@Κorína .ΧΡΔ. Yes, American Indian, ma'am. Shawnee/Cherokee and Powhattan (that is, Pamunkey) from 'way back in the 1400's. And one Choctaw ancestor from my dad's side. But I also have Irish and English blood in me, and a little Scandinavian and French. I'm a mixed-blood, as we say here. And usually white people say "Native American" but American Indians generally say "Indyan" or "American Indyan". The first question one Indian will say to another when introduced is "What Tribe are you from?".

@Κorína .ΧΡΔ. Yes, well, what the federal government of the US is doing all over the world is also sad. I am also a Southerner and what the federal government did to the South was sad. They practiced here before taking their plans of war, profit and empire over seas. The US gov't is evil and unChristian, in my opinion. (it wasn't simply "white men" who killed Indians, plenty of them married Indians and lived with them. It is a certain political and anti-Christian ideology of thinking they are the "best" and all other Peoples are inferior and therefore to be preyed upon.)

Rize Grike huge LOVE to to the greeks of Kato- Italia! Love your pure greek Language!

Does rize mean something in particular?

Learn the dialect, do not let it perish after thousands of years!

zeynep özçelebi yes, it means roots

@@levesd3722 we have a city called Rize. Back then it belonged to Pontus Greeks. That's why I asked

Are you sure this test is reliable ? Cause it could not be the case.

@@Dani-wc9cu I don't really know! I had it here in the United states. And usually, once or twice a year I get an update about my results, whenever they get some new data!

That's pretty cool but not surprising. Iraq being the cradle of civilization has been a very attractive region to control so many groups throughout history have taken their stab at trying to get it. It is the reason Iraq is so diverse ethnically, but most people tend not to notice because you know... It's Iraq. Shame, Iraq seems like an awesome place and I would love to visit it as much as I would Greece because I have a fascination with the oldest civilizations on Earth and Sumeria (Iraq) is the oldest of them all. Much love from China friend.

@@maozedong8370 You are more than welcome to visit Iraq anytime, my friend! All love and respect to Chines people!

This is why I don't trust individual dna test companies How the fuck did they separated greek dna from Anatolian

Love from Greece 🇬🇷 agia Sofia return soon

​@@vasilysgr5815OTTOMAN EMPIRE

@eV Avoz DNA of Serbs says different. There's barely Anatolian DNA in average Serbian, like 1%. We are mix of Illyrians and Slavs. Greeks and Serbs are Orthodox brothers but genetically we are different.

@eV Avoz Anatolian Turks are basically turkified Eastern Roman population, that's why they've got like 24% J2 and around 16% of R1b. Turks and Greeks are kinda similar just the only exception is that the Greeks dont have Central Asian genetics. About being European, their cities are literally older than Romans, they're forefathers of democracy, modern mathematics, philosophy, science, medicine.. By mentality, they're fully European.

I know several Serbs and one common thing I've noticed is that they are all really tall. Is that common?

Macedonia is a Greek word

Thanks 😊

They teach you right.But you have to know that a small part of Macedonia that now belongs to FYROM and also a small part of it that now belongs to Bulgaria , were parts of the ancient Macedonia. Slavs came to that place ( Balkan ) very very late.....6th century after Crist. So the confusion is that Slavic people are living now, in parts of the geographical area of Macedonia.They are Slavs. Not Macedonians even if they are living in small parts of the great Macedonia. Their language ( FYROM) is Bulgarian. Their nation is Slavic. Nothing to do with the Macedoneans.Macedonians were Greeks .Speaking Greek, having Greek names, Greek gods etc etc. That is why they were participating Olympic Games that were allowed to only for the Greek cities - states......

They literally teach us that in FYROM too. ( well in albanian schools )

@@miraniseini2931 Really?

good point

True, they are European Mediterranean, however, I must say that Spaniards have quite a diferent genetic make up from that of Italian and Greeks, particularly the last ones. Europe can be devided in 3 main regions: Northern Europe (Nordic countries), Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. There could be a fourth group including the Finish and Baltic people, whose genetics are pretty different. Of course, many people cluster with several groups, like Italy, or Germany, etc.

@Dimitri Filipi We are Europeans, period...

@Dimitri Filipi in Quora you were admitting that at least South Greeks and Greek islanders (who make up the majority of Greeks) have more in common with "Latins" like Italians and Spaniards and less with Balkan people like Albanians. I have not listened to any Albanian or Balkan or oriental music which sounds like Sirtaki, in contrast to many Sounds from Italy which do sound like Sirtaki, or never saw any architecture in Balkans looking like anything in Peloponnese like Nafplio, Pylos Koroni, Galaxidi, Aegean islands etc in contrast to many parts of Italy which are nearly identical now not sure what you mean by "traditional clothing", cause no person in Greece walks in the street wearing "traditional clothing", but Greek clothing surely was always consisted of a white shirt and a black bollero, like in almost all South European countries, having nothing slavic about it, let alone middle eastern or arabian traditional clothing which has litterally nothing in common with Greek what exactly changed since you were admitting the reality, that most of Greece is like LATINS, NOT BALKANS? Which is the reality i am experiencing here as well. BTW in ALL sources Greece is associated with WESTERN EUROPE mostly, not with eastern Europe. We have nearly 2 continuous centuries in Western Europe, and another 3 during medieval times, all our indexes (education, gdp etc) are closer to WESTERN EUROPE. You talk about music, do Greek americans (who we in Greece call "haza amerikanakia") know about waltz tradition in Greece? I doubt if you know anything more about Greece than what you see in weddings, that's why have such an opinion about "Greek Americans". You say you are an Arvanite, both in Quora and here, you should know that Greece is not Arvanitic villages (a population which hardly makes up 3% of Greece). visit northern suburbs of Athens and you will see places that could have similarities not only with "Latins", but even with Germanic countries, but nothing in common with Balkans, and especially Albania which has zero innfluence from the West (at least countries like Serbia do have Western influence). How many places in Albania which look anything like Santorini, or Plaka in Athens, or the towns from South Greece i referred above could you suggest me? North Greece is a bit more Balkanic influenced, and because of the Anatolian refugees maybe more, but people know Greece for South, and even more for its islands, not for Balkan influenced places You can personally feel close to whoever you want, and see "your culture" in dances or music etc of whoever you want, but you have to respect that this doesn't apply for Greeks, and if you differ from Greeks from this aspect, then you obviously aren't Greek, even if you have some origins from there

Pelasgian=Ilyrian=Albanian (Arberesh-Arvanitika Greek). Who want to learn correct Europian History, please come to Albania and Kosovo, and you will know true History, Albanian-Geg, are CORE of ORIGIN OF LANGUAGFE EUROPIAN

We also feel very close to sicilians .Salutations from peloponesse❤

ai que rico , que lindo puerto rico.... hi from an extra "moreno " greek ! i suppose y wouldnt mind if usa and germany exchanged their "influence" in the 2 countries with each - other ... like scheuble proposed... ( lol !! )

So you’re Caucasian

If by nationality you mean citizenship that's ok. Because as ethnic Greeks, we're all the nationals of Hellas

I’ve studied Greek culture, archaeology and philosophy. I feel Greek but ancestry says not.

I m from cyprus aswell my dad was greek

Cyprus = 40,000 years hellenic

@@alexandrosantoniou6686 might not be 40000 but is still definitely more than 6000, making it along with the rest of Greece the oldest still living nation on Earth situated in its homeland. Ζήτω η Ελλάς!

@B C and you $lav$hits say you are 'maatsedonians' LOOOOOOOL

@B C and if you $lav$hits could make a distinction you wouldn't be a laughing stock :D

@B C FYROMians wannabe maatsedonians. Just look at them and laugh :D kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hK-gZd2kt7edh3U.html

The Great Warrior what? How? Lmao this is so funny. I’d be jealous of us too

We Greeks love our real brothers in Italy! Greece-Italy always united!!

We are all Europeans and we should all be united in democracy and human rights. I say this as a Greek Europatriot. LONG LIVE (A TRUE) EUROPEAN UNION.

Why you love greece ?

@@Email5507 its beautiful

@@n3rkel Modern Greeks LOOOOL kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p-Bnnqycm9Tcd30.html

@@n3rkel The Greek civilization, Greeks were gay kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7FootyiqrOvm2w.html

@@n3rkel Ancient Greeks kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdp8YNOjteC5opc.html

Love to our ancient brothers in Egyot, from Hellas (Greece) 💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍💙

Merhaba Sadik!

❤Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🌸🌸

@@mikej.chrisoulakis8250 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 GEIA FELOUS 🇬🇷❤️🇪🇬

@@catacat12love from Egypt

There is one thing that we’ve deliberately overlooked that the Greeks took most of their knowledge and even most of the Greek mythology from the ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians and the Phoenicians. Just look at the Alphabet, it wasn’t Greek, it was invented by the Phoenicians, so is the word Alphabet from Aramaic Aleph ( ox) and Bet ( home) . Our continent is called after Europa who wasn’t Greek but a Phoenician princess from the ancient city of Tyre ( in today’s Lebanon). There are historical work that show more than half of the European Mediterranean cities were founded by the Phoenicians not the Greeks or the Romans. Look at the origins of Pythagoras and Thales, they weren’t Greeks, they were Phoenicians. Check out the works of historians from MIT (S. Holst and others from Columbia about the ancient world. But History is written and manipulated by the VICTORS that’s why we ignore those great civilizations I mentioned and we limit our civilizations to the Greeks and Romans. So arrogant and ignorant !

Plus architecture medicine physics chemistry algebra astronomy and many many more, thank you

​​@@fjordhellas4077 I can tell you the etymology of the word Phoenician and Pythagoras while you can't.. these names make perfect sense to me.. how is that?..because they were al Greek tribes..the name just changed..from Μινυες Αιγαιητες to Πελασγους to Έλληνες..you have a huge misunderstanding of history and Greek history..you lack the knowledge and you write nonsense..

​@@MAGNETAS all stolen from Egyptians and even perverted jesus true religion and manipulated the original bible.. stop the lies

But Phonenecians came from Greeks or they came from the same common ancestors.

We stand with you 🇬🇷🇦🇲

My mother kept in contact with her Armenian neighbors in Jerusalem, they lived side by side. Thanks bro

@@fudgedogbannana alexannder was greek not sheperd macedons

We love our Azerbaijani Turkish brothers. You've seen it too, in the 44-day war in 2020 :) 🇹🇷♥️🇦🇿

@@savasozcan7533 mzacedonians is racist sheperd illiric white ass greek is not from athens is algeryans tunis some iranic bec8ouse arab come later

Greeks are known as the Indians of Europe.

@@user-mq6qv6bi2g Oh I didn't knew that, nice bro.

@@user-mq6qv6bi2g are you an arab ?

@@user-mq6qv6bi2g Turkalbanians are known as the gypsies of Asia

@@nikolatesla4674 just the same, he's a turkalbanian.

I love lebanon from greece

amuru makavelli Lebanon in in our hearts. Love from Greece.

We love you back 🇬🇷🇱🇧

amuru makavelli - Shukraan habib’ elbi! Greetings from Hellas to the ancient land of the seafaring Phoenicians! I know only one Arabic phrase that my Lebanese friends taught me: “ Yunani mezhnounim”...

A A - No. The Phoenicians gave the Greeks their alphabetic script (or at least part of it). The Greeks added vowels, adapted it to the phonology of the Greek language, simplified and standardized it - made it more ‘user friendly’, to use a modern idiom - and subsequently bequeathed it to the Romans (and hence to the rest of Europe - including the Cyrillic script for the Russians and most other Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe).

greetings brother!!!

Christian or Muslim a Lebanese is always welcomed in Greece. I feel so connected to Lebanese people, everytime I meet one I feel this spiritual energy that I cant explain. Greeks have their own friends and Lebanese have their own friends, but we are soulmates.

Lebanese_falafel Greetings from a half Greek half Lebanese Christian!

@@KingQrimson most of lebanese christians have greek ancestry

@@KingQrimson discord.gg/gnC7bvS

Swedistan

Don't cry FYROmistan

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everywhere in this planet people learn the same, only monkeydonians albanians and turks hate the truth. But history based on evidence and scripts so is universal.

The greeks did not exist and still not exist greece is just a fake state to created by great powers by England France Russia you don't read fake history but look documents in archives the greek territory has been inhabited by Albanians read the history london conference and fragmentation the albanian lands 1912 1913

@@viktor7359 and where are you from? fyrom/ northern Macedonia? please, you were under ottoman control longer than us.

@@blalretardhoho I'm from Macedonia 🇲🇰 Why ??

@@viktor7359 well, most of you Macedonians are really toxic on youtube and other social media, for example , you give us nicknames like ''former ottoman republic of Greece.

@@viktor7359 what about you go to a psychiatrist and deal with your inferiority complex towards the history of Macedonian Greeks with the use of some professional treatment?

@@polmenakos lol...😁 you're really stupid Yes ....Greece is very poor country Lazy land + bankrupt land = Greece comparison ??? Macedonia has a population 2.30 000 .... Former Ottoman Province Greece 🚽 has a population 10 000 000 ...

@I'm Greek, I wish I was Italian. Long live Italy! The alphabet is a greek invention dipshit. Europe was a Greek myth ;-)

@I'm Greek, I wish I was Italian. Long live Italy! You're referring to the later alphabet we acquired from the Phoenicians, but prior to that there was linear a and b, of Minoan and Mycenaean origin respectively.

@I'm Greek, I wish I was Italian. Long live Italy! hahahaha don't make me laugh. Europe is the most rich and developed continent in the world due to Greece and Rome. Middle East is a shithole.

@@dimz796 No, Phoenicians did not have a proper alphabet but a proto-alphabet.

@@levesd3722 Afaik, w/e they had was similar to the ancient euboean alphabet minus the vowels and every letter was written inverted and much cruder. When it was adapted for Greek, vowels were added and the writing direction changed to left-to-right.

Griko in south Italy is the soul of Greece. They are our brothers. The name italian comes from the italic peninsula for the people living in, including the Hellenes(Griko). We love Italy anyway 🇬🇷🇮🇹

You're Greek! You stayed in the South of Italy after the collapse of Great Greece. Great Greece is the place and era of southern Italy and Sicily when it was colonized by the Greeks

YOU ARE THE PUREST GREEKS AS ESCAPED ANY ISLAMIC OCCUPATION

@@alexandrosantoniou6686 ??

Isnt Sicily more related to northern africans?

Grazie from Greece. We love you Italia for spreading the Greek culture to Europe through Roman Empire and the Renaissance. We have so much in common and share our cultures for centuries now. Unfortunately modern Greece is a mixed of different ethnicities like this video very correct mentioned due to the Ottoman-Turks and that cause losing our identity, not our culture though. Oh wait...Thank you so much for so many beautiful things you have created. The design, architecture fashion, art, sculpture, painting, cinema (Fellini, Antonioni, Rossellini, Visconti, De Sica, Bertolucci,) music (Vivaldi, Scarlati, Monteverdi, Puccini, Rossini, Bononcini, Gino Paoli, Luigi Tenco, Peppino Di Capri ) Marcello Mastroianni, Sofia Lauren, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Ferrari, Ferrari F-40, Lancia Stratos, Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, Lamborgini, Maserati, Fiat 1200 Convertible, Pagani, Vespa, , Pizza, Pasta, Parmigiano Reggiano, Espresso, Capuccino, the best icecream in the world Gelato! and one of the best languanges of the world. This summer I visited Milano and Bergamo and listening unstopable "l asciatemi cantare". Though I'm Greek I feel I am Italian too.

Greece is the center of the world , exact place is DELPHI , CHECH IT OUT.

@ Balthazar Rivière I dare you to speak Greek .

@@balthazarriviere6036 I am Greek but I was amazed when I had my DNA tested the results showed a large percentage of Italian. 40%

@Capitan Barbosa, you're just an anti Greek internet roll with issues. Modern Greeks surprisingly don't have Turkish or Central Asian DNA because we didn't mix with Muslims. Those Greeks who did mix with Muslims and converted to Islam moved to Turkey in the 1920's. We Orthodox Christians are not permitted by our religion to marry non Christians. Greeks are genetically closely related to Italians due to Greek colonization of Southern Italy in Ancient times and Venetian rule in the Middle Ages. My DNA test results were almost 40 percent the same as Italians, the rest was mostly Balkan (Greece) and even some Eastern European . www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/greeks-really-do-have-near-mythical-origins-ancient-dna-reveals

Those are Arbereshe not Greek.

@@fluz2222 Magna Graecia has historically been heavily colonised by Greek settlers, I'm sure there are still Greek communities in Italy (Especially because so many people seem to think there are)

@@sceerane8662 those that moved there were Arbereshe aka Albanians. They moved from Morea Greece. At that time when they settled there it was recorded as magna grecia because that's where the arberehse community came from but know its knows as magna Albanesi. The Arbereshe themselves changed it. If you go down to south Italy, Sicily, Calabria the Albanian language is the second official language there. You literally have road signs there in Albanian and Italian and not Greek.

@@fluz2222 And i'm saying that those Magna Graecian (Greek) communities likely still exist seperately from those Arbereshe communities.

@@sceerane8662 those territories were were granted by the Pope to the Arbereshe and that's what the majority if the population of south Italy is. They're Arbereshe.

Like Cat Stevens!

Aincent Greeks were oriental too.

@@Goyim-phobic they were indoeuropeans so i guess not

@@part9952thier language was

@@Goyim-phobic not at all. Greek is not a semitic language.

@@levesd3722 ⚠️Why is islam the truth⚠️ There is a clear definition of God: Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One,Allah, the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born. Nor is there to Him any equivalent." ( Surah Al ikhlas) Islam calls for worshipping one unique God who created everything. And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah. And that is the correct religion.(98/5) Quran is the only holy book that preserved its original script. It is as it was revealed to Muhammad (Pbuh). The Almighty ensured the preservation of the Quran because the message of Muhammad (Pbuh) is universal and final. “We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly Guard it (from corruption)” (15:9 The great miracles that the Qur'an include in the legislation, judgments, stories, beliefs, and science can not be produced by any creature, regardless of their knowledge. It tells a lot of past and future facts that can not be achieved by humans, especially at that time which was primitive in terms of modern technology and machinery Some of the verses in which addressed the Prophet (Pbuh) mention some of the things that Allah warned against him, and some of verses admonish him: “Do not say of anything, ‘I will do that tomorrow,’ without adding, ‘God willing’” (Quran, 18:23-24). Islam is the fastest growing religion right now. The number of convert to islam is increasing in major countries. Britain sees about 5,200 conversions a year. In America, nearly a quarter of Muslims are converts. A false religion basically will lose followers not gain them. [1] Muslims honor all prophets, and the belief in them is obligatory for every Muslim. Say, ‘We believe in God and in what was sent down to us and what was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and what was given to Moses, Jesus, and all the prophets by their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we devote ourselves to Him.’” (Quran, 2:136) Islam is based on the concept of justice in rewards and sanctions. No one was born sinner and noone is expected to go to hell or heaven. It all depends on your deeds in this worldly life. So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it. And whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it. (99:7/8) The righteousness in islam is not defined by how many prayers you made or how days you fast but how you treat others. Abu Huraira reported: A man said, “O Messenger of Allah, a woman prays in the night, fasts in the day, does many deeds and gives charity, yet she harms her neighbors with her tongue.” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “There is no good in her. She is among the people of Hellfire.” The man said, “O Messenger of Allah, another woman prays the obligatory prayers and gives bits of food in charity, yet she does not harm anyone.” The Prophet said, “She is among the people of Paradise.” Source: al-Adab al-Mufrad 117 Islam is compatible with human nature. It establishes an equilibrium between the body needs and soul demands. Seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter; but do not forget your share of the world. And do good as Allah has done good to you. And desire not corruption in the land. Indeed, Allah does not like corrupters." [Surat Al Qasas:77].

Yeah, you are obviously a very learned person, you must be great in school xD plus let me remind you, there is a reason why in antiquity you hear the phrase greeks and macedonians, but not the phrase greeks and athenians ;)

@@SnaRi-dc1nl Well, "Makedonians" were more or less synonymous with Ionic/Athenians - those who controlled the central islands and shores of the Aegean. Athens just happened to be the leading citystate within the "Makedonian" group,- and thus developed somewhat of a distinct culture - especially since it was surrounded by "lesser greeks" influencing their otherwise eastern-greek bias - which is what "Makedonians" were.

@@fredriks5090 🤣🤣🤣🤣 hilarious. Someone inform webster about the brand new therm ionian/athenians. Lets also inform webster that makedonia was not a city state, its an error as fundamental as comparing capitalist USA and communist china

​@@SnaRi-dc1nl why they named the era after Alexander conquest's Hellenistic and not makedonistic?

@@SnaRi-dc1nl It's okay one day you will out that the Slavic nations migrated into the area almost 1000 years after the death of Alexander the Great. But untill then you can only act like a laughing stock to the people who understand basic history.

Awww you should visit! Andros is a beautiful island

and I bet your Yaya made great food... I have a friend who swears that the Yaya from movie "My big fat greek wedding" is his real Yaya....

H KS haha omg nothing on earth beats my yaya’s food !!! ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

@@The30Free Taste good and nutritious. One of the bests, good for you.

I'm Irish decended american living in a 80% greek town , they are cool people 😁🇺🇲

Greeks are European.

Historically, our very strict monogamy and the role of women in society, despite whatever crap we are receiving in the past decades ( our nation was essentially always ruled by the women...) , All these are making a very sharp contrast with the Muslim world and the Asians in general.

Mr Hun ! ,,Sorry Hans , look ... 120 000 000 Greeks around the world have Only Greek DNA like the Latins and Celtes in Europe ... Europe , it's a Greek word like the latin alphabet Too ... Kisses Mr HUN - BOSCH Soon we Greeks with you , we talk about many Things

Greeks look nothing like other europeans.. and religion hasn't got anything with this now

then why they expanded east and not west?

ÖLÜMLÜHAYATBUGÜNVARSINYARINYOKSUN Τι συμβαίνει μαλάκα

ÖLÜMLÜHAYATBUGÜNVARSINYARINYOKSUN turgay I told you not to use google translate, it makes you look even more stupid XD

Leves D I’m Greek malaka

Paul Panos wasn't talking to you xontromalaka ;-)

Leves D Ella re!

Thanks friend. Your country is one of my favourites 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

I hope korea can be united.

Thank you, dear Korean friend! I also respect your great nation and i'm very interested in korean history! I wish your country could be reunited someday (soon) and your entire nation could live with freedom and happiness!

Korean??? I love your country my friend!!!

Lots of love and kisses to Korea! Very special place and people!

Greek= christian turks

Poulos was my grandma’s maiden name. She was originated from Epirus region NW Greece

❤

There's no connection between the ancient Greeks and the modern Greeks. They're not geniuses like Socrates or Plato. Quite the opposite.

@@illbeback3168 Based on what facts?

@@ugabugabagaga, there's no contiuation between ancient and modern Greece (formed in 1822), but a huge historical gap filled by other ethnicities. Read the german thinker Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (1790 - 1861). When western philhellenes like Byron visited Greece, they hoped to meet the grandsons of Socrates, but they met assimilated: Arvanites (Albanians), Aromanians, Slavs etc., who were counted as "Greeks" cause they adhered to greek orthodoxy and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, Greece conquered what is now "Greek Macedonia" and forcibly assimilated the local slavic Macedonians or Bulgarians, and in 1923, Greece was enriched with refugees from Asia Minor, also counted as "Greeks", though they were: Karamanlides (baptised Seljuks), Georgians, Armenians, christian Arabs etc. Greece denies the existence of other ethnicities in it's borders and persecutes them, but it is in fact a multiethnic conglomerate. It's inhabitans posses none of the qualities ascrbibed to the ancient Greeks.

@@illbeback3168 I don't usually respond to racist and delusional ignorants , but i will now so others can see it too.There is NO "historical gap" as you claim , because in this area since before antiquity Greeks inhabit non-stop.The fact that the area ,during the ottoman occupation was inhabited by many other ethnicities as well , does not by any means change the fact , that the majority were Greeks.In fact , Greeks were majority in other regions as well , as the very video mentions too , regions that don't belog to modern Greece , such as Asia minor , Western Thrace , Cyprus and many more.When Greeks RETOOK Macedonia, it was being raided by Bulgarians , who were infesting the villages , killing the locals and loot them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Struggle.Macedonia after all , is home to the Greeks since antiquity , home to one of the greatest Greeks of all time , Alexander The Great.During the population exchange between Greece and Turkey , more than 1 million people came to Greece , the absolute majority of them being ethnically Greek.Along with them Armenians and other cristians as well as some jewish people came here , but them being a minority.You search for the bokk of Aris Poulianos "the Origins of Greeks" , to watch the evidence after reasearch presented by the author.You can also open a book , or ask a University professor if you have any questions , rather than spreading toxic ant-Greek bullshit.Where are you from?

​@@ugabugabagaga, wrong. Most fighters of the greek struggle for Macedonia were not from there. Karavangelis was from Lesbos, Melas was born in France with roots from N. Epirus, his andartes were from Crete and Peloponese. The few locals they recruited like Kotas and Vangelis Natsis were Bulgarians - deserters from the IMRO. This struggle was not grassroots, it was orchestrated from Greece by her ambassador in the Ottoman Empire, Mavrokordatos; her consul in Thess/niki, Koromilas; and his colleague in Monastiri, Dragoumis. None of them was from Macedonia. And most of the bulgarian fighters were born in Macedonia: Hadzhinikolov and Delchev (Kilkis), Batandzhiev (Goumenissa), Dimitrov (Ayvatovo near Salonica), Pop Traikov (Dambeni, Kastoria), Chakalarov (Smrdesh, Florina). Also add Vlahov from Kilkis, who took part in the formation of the yugoslav republic of Macedonia.

We are all Greeks!

@@queenkalliope no,we are all ethiopians :D :D :D

And the rest 65% is what? In Bulgaria 1/3 of the population is indigenous Thracians a Hellenic tribe, thus, I expect 90%+ of your DNA to remain Greek

@@alexandrosantoniou6686 as in the case of many modern Bulgarians , it's mainly a Greek-Slavic team. Cheers!

We have nothing to do with you,the thracians were long gone before the slavs came and they weren't greeks,they were just hellenized at some point,stop with those silly theories!!!

piss on you

🇬🇷😍serbia and 🇬🇷hate🇦🇱

​@@taftybufty You are so fkin stupid i dont even want to waste time on you and your wikipedia or vienna-berlins history or knowledge. U say that someone is brainwashed and u are the most, and advice, u gotta fight that demons in your head, cuz u gonna loose ur soul... You will remember my words in some part of your life, and i hope that it isnt too late...

@Clerical Orthodox Fascist You pretend to be believer but use such words

Fuck Greek. Long live to great Albania Iliria 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦

And why should there be a new one?

@@levesd3722 For the explicit reasons of because.

I thought it was the chance of maybe

Yes Balkan was empty space ! We came diving across the Danube , qiietly with bamboo cane . Nobody saw us !

@@voskreglavincevska3651 Only Procopius did XD

Don't know if he said that, but it's true

Sumerians: hold my beer 🍻

Demy Troy for sure they were black and not blonde with blue eyes, yes they were not semitic, but after semitic groups invaded them got the civilizimin from them and got always more civilisated, founding first empires, and great cities as babylonia ecc.

@ Demy Troythey had nothing to do with greeks.Sumerians were native to mesopotamia.If they were from aegean islands they left nothing behind them.Weird theory.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire

Sorry, that was another profile dealing with FYROMskis.

Antonio Zaccaria maybe Grandma speak Arberesh!

Gia, poi ti sei svegliato.@@eklyskift8078

Anbar 56 Cos’è che ha detto non ho capito?

Anbar 56 non so di chi parli! Forse ti farebbe bene un po di ricerca sulla grecia e i greci! Vedi le video di Maria Efthimiou!

@@eklyskift8078, quando i greci insegnavano al mondo la filosofia, i tuoi simili vivevano ancora da trogloditi. E lascia le ricerche agli altri, non è pane per i tuoi denti.

Mass respect my friend

Joni Zymberi I'm not African American but African European....and I just point out what this video told at 1:00 ! ...and I underline that European civilization was in fact triggered by the population in Europe with the highest E (African) portion in their dna mtHaplogroup....and I add that we know very well the degree of differences between various European groups. In fact various ethinc groups as Turkish for example are actually Europeans but the majority of Europeans deny them on the religious basis.

@@jerrykofiadonu4763 E-V13 haplogroup is nowhere to be found in Africa except in small portions in regions colonized by ancient Greeks. That haplogroup has it's peak in the Balkans. All you black people stop claiming other people's history. We have nothing to do with you

@@jerrykofiadonu4763 WE WUZ GREEEKS N SHEEEEIT

@@kernal1127 Sheeeeeit. I don't even know who muh father is, but I knowz muh ancestors wuz kangz n' shieet thousands of years ago.

were

@@madamedellaporte4214 yes

And we love China φιλε μου :)

No doubt you were robbed by Albanians or other migrants. You are a victim of the EU.

@@jimkalfakis9893 Simple, delicate racism injected right there, smoothly. Well done.

​@TheoXaris I really want to see those "facts and statistics", just typing them doesn't mean anything to me. Jumping to conclusions about what ethnicity did the robbery is racist... even if what you are pointing out as "facts" are true. Also look at this article 2 years ago, www.efsyn.gr/arthro/adikimata-ellinon-kai-allodapon ... that doesn't look like 98% immigrants to me.

TheoXaris Beautifully said..didn’t expect anything else to be honest. Well done supporting your “facts” as well.

Spartans colonised Taranta city

@Ilir Nazif ilmao, speak english not turkish fucktard

Leves D That’s not Turkish you inbred.

Some Guy it's one and the same fucktard.

Tiziano D'amore that is true the Sicilians are of Ancient Greek background who fought and won so therefore left their soldiers and leaders in their land.

And the next begins...?

@@levesd3722 There is no beginning,only the end...You just met great fan of apocalypse.

cool

How does a sentence not have an ending

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Love from greece to are brothers armenians!!! 💘

@Jakup II .....οπως λεμε....fake to much cheep book key ...ενα πράγμα.

♥️

gaymenia gayreece

and internet is an english thing. and?

@Demy Troy Hahahahahahahaha

@greg oscar you wish to loser!!!

@earaza germany has no ancient history

@@thanasis3999 ancient greeks are not dead.

Much love. I wish my country welcomed in more people like you.

Greek Orthodox Christian living in Boston USA much Love Back!

Not all Greeks are Orthodox tho

@ Rami Zureikat hello my friend.Furthermore,dont listen to people like that communist shit @ Comrade Hellas that the only thing that he does is propaganda and that idiot right here @ Τυχαίος 'Ελληνας.

@@johnfragka2453 ???? wtf are you talking about ...

@Saf 299 but Greeks named it alexandria and it was greek on these days

Saf 299 There is still a greek community in Alexandria althow most was gone after Nasser's reforms.

@Saf 299 it was hellenic,make by Alexander.

fuck egypt al masri khanazor egypt today stinks and looks like camle shit

Georgios Alencar Chardavellas Ishmael wife is an Arab from Yemen.

turgays

@N0N 0N AHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHA

No. Europe is a Phoenician word.

@@gearlord8506 no you woke starbucks postmodernistic mud hut blm warrior

@@gearlord8506 it's actually an ancient greek word! :D

and never respect turgays ;-)

ÖLÜMLÜHAYATBUGÜNVARSINYARINYOKSU Hellas you son of a bitch ,

@@Email5507 why are you everytime on greek history video just to give hate? You're getting boring

William Anderson so europeans are Greeks?😂

ÖLÜMLÜHAYATBUGÜNVARSINYARINYOKSUN love, just because people dont like your country, doesn’t mean you have to fight with people who love Greece. Greece is better for reasons

hellectra1 And very lazy, and poor

@@nishhnishh1088 ok... yes we became poor because of the several governments and their political movements. But we are not lazy ... sorry you don't have all the answers.

You are Albanian but you don't know it..!!

Your language is so poor that we Albanians can learn it within 24 hours.

@@Patrioti_Ilirik ahahahhahhahahahhahah

Hehe

@Electros Staff or they may think that they are also greeks.

It's all Tito's fault. Had the region remained known as Vadarska, no one would even come up with this Macedonian thing. Hell, had it remained Bulgarian, a separate identity of FYROM Macedonians wouldn't emerge at all

@goran gruev Dude I dont think getting that back full of nutcases like the brainwashed macedonians is worth it. Better leave as is....

@@alexandrub8786 except that they say themselves that Macedonians were Slavs...

@ Khal Sameer Greetings from Hellas, Sameer.

@Yilmaz Kilin Butthurt Turkish boy!!

@Yilmaz Kilin Likewise I heard somewhere that the first colonizers of America were the Turks.

Nah, the Turks are the first who discovered America. So the hamburgers were their invention...lol... I am not sure about electricity though!! I think it was the Egyptians and the Iraqis. They have found ancient batteries in Egypt and in Baghdad .

www.ancient-code.com/ancient-egyptians-electricty-batteries-thousands-years-ago/

Armageddon Love to Romania from the Romans [ I'm Italian ]

Orthodox brothers

And the Greeks called their land Romania

@@pompei1968 what do you mean

I’ve been to Greece several times and have friends there. I’ve noticed that most Greeks have black hair and light brown skin.

Hang on from greece, usa will at sometime leave the arabic world in peace! arabic culture is a marvel!! friendly and respect from a greek!

Americans like myself love Iraq !!!! We want nothing but the best for our Iraqi friends and brothers !!! Great people and culture!!!!! Hopefully peace will come soon to your country !!!!

@@constantinep.9357 You Greeks and Arabs are the same.

@@constantinep.9357 Greeks are a mix of Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Albanians, Slavs, etc.

@B C And you Turgays and Mongols are the same ;-)

United States are english words ..... Does that make the United States European ?

Isn't Asia a greek word?

@Georgios Alencar Chardavellas Greece isn't only democracy. There were both greek democracies in Gaul and greek monarchies in Bactria.

@Georgios Alencar Chardavellas ask your father because it may be arvanites (ethnic albanians who lives in Greece). The people of Greece is a mixture of many orthodoks peoples in the area such as albanian, slavic, seljuk turks etcc. Read about the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece. Manny muslim albanians was exchanged with orthodoks seljuk turks.

Piroclanidis no Greeks are Gypsies

because its true that Macedonia was Greek city state..just look where the Phillips (Alexander father) grave is . They spoke Greek and worship the same gods.

Perche tu sei Italiano e propabile che conosci che alla ultima guerra di Romani contro i Macedoni il Re dei Macedoni si chiamava Περσεύς.

Certo che lo so.