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Originally Posted by Svyatoslav
Considering groups as varied as the Avars, Slavs, Bulgars, and Turks have swept over/through the area in question, to say modern Greeks closely approach those of antiquity is a bit of a stretch, regardless of what Dienekes says.
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Casting such doubts based on mere speculations might have worked a decade ago. But today we are at a point where unless you provide DNA evidence to support a population substitution, your considerations mean nothing.
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Originally Posted by Patrinos
Conforumers thanks for the constitutive conversation full of prooves and epicheiremas.
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Whatever it looks to you, it shouldn't matter because, as it happens, you don't fit in the average of the Greek population. So, to answer your question if modern Greeks are
mostly the descendants of ancient Greeks, I would say:
- I suppose they were.. in their most part
- Neither [most] modern Greeks nor ancient Greeks look(ed) Arabid/Orientalid
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