The presence of R1a in the British Isles is in the main due to Norse Viking ancestry, although Anglo-Saxons and Danes will have carried a smaller proportion there and there is a rare English-specific subgroup. Then the chances are that some of your ancestors may come from the Balkan region.
Parts of southern Italy and Sicily were filled with Greek-speakers at one time.

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Welcome to our Greece family history research page. Edit: The reason why they look more like the other groups listed above is because those groups usually have considerable Greek ancestry themselves, from both Ancient Greek and Byzantine colonization of those lands. By Ann Gibbons Aug. 2, 2017 , 1:00 PM. $99.00. Here you'll find record collections, history, and genealogy resources to help you trace your Greece ancestors.

The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) was a historical race concept that was a sub-race of the Caucasian race as categorised by anthropologists in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. It might have something to do with the East of England having the most Italian/Greek (Southern European) ancestry (2.53%) and Western European (French/German) (22.52%) ancestry, as well as the highest amount from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) (3.43%). Search Europe Greece Greece .

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It has been hypothesised that haplogroup R1a was carried to Europe by the Kurgan culture, who domesticated the horse.
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