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To: nopardons
Hungarians came in after most of the groups I mentioned before. They are probably related to germanics or slavs, but I base that on the fact that they all entered Europe through the russian steppe. I am aware of the uniqueness of the Lapps, but i was trying to generalize the whole population of Europe into the larger groups. There were obviously people in Europe before any of the groups, including the Celts, came into Europe.


"The " Romance Language Speakers ", which is based on Latin, is batter than " Latins ", as you suggest."

I am aware of the "Romance Language Speakers." But what i was refering to by "Latins" was the people from the Italian peninsula. These people, a mix of the etruscans and the tribes to the south that spoke Latin, were different than the celtic peoples in the British Isles, France, Spain and other countries. The celtic group in those countries was believed to have came into those areas at the same time. I believe the etruscans were believed to have been from central asia, but i'm not sure. The etruscans were darker and more like turks, i believe. As for the Tribes to the south, they were different that the etruscans and were heavily influenced by greek colonies on the southern part of italy and sicily. The group i refered to as Latins, was the mixture that came out of the roman republic in Italy and counquered/settled in spain, france, england, the balkans, and all the way around the mediterranean.

51 posted on 08/26/2002 8:25:27 AM PDT by sonofron
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To: sonofron
You're misinformed, on at least two accounts.

There were people, in what is now Hungary, in Paleolithic times. Some later invaders were Asian ; others , which the first king of ALL Hungary, Arpad , was not. The Magyars are different from the Mongols and the Huns. No, Hungarians were not Slavic.

Etruscans were NOT " dark " and were not Asiatics either.

If you want to go by Ancient Roman legend, the FIRST " Romans " , were descended from Aeneus ( the father of Romulus & Remus , according to Virgil and others ) and was a from Troy , which is now Turkish, but was NOT inhabitted by what we now think of as " Turks " , then. These people were VERY dissimilar from the Greks, who had later settled Sicily and the Southern most areas of Italy.

Populations have always been wiped out, moved, and / or intermarried . When you look at the over styalized painting from Crete and Anciet Eygpt, and then, at the remains of actual humans, you can see the differences. The same is true with the Etruscan grave paintings and statuary. Greek statuarary, OTOH, is idealozied. The Romans copied , to some extent , their style ;however, most is truer to nature ... facially .

53 posted on 08/26/2002 9:24:08 PM PDT by nopardons
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