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Genetics of the peloponnesean populations and the theory of extinction of the medieval peloponnesean Greeks.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 May 2017
Stamatoyannopoulos George, Bose Aritra, Teodosiadis Athanasios, Tsetsos Fotis, Plantinga Anna, Psatha Nikoletta, Zogas Nikos, Yannaki Evangelia, Zalloua Pierre, Kidd Kenneth K, Browning Brian L, Stamatoyannopoulos John, Paschou Peristera, Drineas Petros
Abstract excerpt
Peloponnese has been one of the cradles of the Classical European civilization and an important contributor to the ancient European history. It has also been the subject of a controversy about the ancestry of its population. In a theory hotly debated by scholars for over 170 years, the German historian Jacob Philipp Fallmerayer proposed that the medieval Peloponneseans were totally extinguished by Slavic and Avar...
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