They also resemble Ibizan Hounds, another "primitive" breed.
I have 4 of them now and have had many others over the years.
My late lamented Minnie once saved me and 5 other dogs from dying of smoke inhalation.
The woodstove chimney had some sort of "draft malfunction" and the smoke was pouring into the house as we all slept.
Minnie, who rarely barked or got "wild" about anything woke me up from what was surely a slow-suffocation "sleep" by barking -very- loudly and bouncing on my chest.
I slowly came to and realized what was going on and staggered around opening all the windows and doors.
I dragged the dogs onto the front porch and we all huddled there in the sub-zero February cold until the smoke cleared out of the house enough for me go in and shut the vents on the stove, thereby suffocating the fire.
I and all my dogs would've died in our sleep if not for her.
To this day, I don't know what got into her because such things just weren't "her style".
(((((((Minnie)))))))
There must be something instinctive about smoke being trouble. When I had lately moved into a new house and the furnace came on for the first time in the fall season, the air belching out of it smelled of oil smoke for a minute or two. (It's like that every time it hasn't run for a few months.) My cat started meowing in panic at once.
LOTS of dogs overseas look exactly like this dog.