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From: "Annie, The WritingTeacher" <>
Subject: [DNA] Syrians are many times more diversified than Greeks
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 15:54:44 -0700

Throughout history, the Greeks tended to marry Greeks, while the Syrians
married from a wide diverse range of women including European, Armenian,
Persian, Egyptian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Roman in ancient times. However, I
heard Greeks are related to Austrians genetically, and Bulgarians differ
radically from Greeks but are related to Turks. So who's more diversified,
Greeks or Syrians?

I know by looks my Syrian grandkids from Aleppo are so diversified they look
like different races. One has blue eyes and blonde curly hair, pink skin,
the other has straight black hair and olive skin, dark eyes and looks
Mongolian. My grand daughter, Raye, has reddish brown hair, pink skin, and
blue eyes. Brother and sister couldn't look more different. Also, Vikings
settled in Syria, but not so much in Greece as in Turkey and Iraq.
Nevertheless, there are blonde Greeks and dark ones, same with Armenians.
Same with Sicily.

In medieval times Syrian men married Polish and Ukrainian women linked by
Byzantium and the spread of the Orthodox church. And so it goes on.
Then there was a huge migration from Livorno, Italy to Syria in the 18th
century. These people in Aleppo are called the "Signoreem" of Italian and
Spanish nobility. They came there five hundred to two hundred years ago.

Anne

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