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To: inquest
Modern Tunisians are an ethnic mix of ancient Pheonicians (themselves a Semitic people), Greek and Roman settlers, Berbers and Arabs.

Arab ancestry, of course, predominates.

8 posted on 05/27/2005 12:31:58 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: wideawake
I don't think there was much left of the Phoenician stock by the time the Romans were done with them.

By the way, Arabs are Hamitic, not Semitic.

13 posted on 05/27/2005 12:35:46 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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