The history and role of Cyprus in the Greek state

[Amphipolis]

Originally Posted by tchaiku

Bulgarian are 73% ''GREEK''.
https://www.myheritage.com/ethniciti...y-distribution

Actually that says 73% has some Greek in them. By the way, where is the famous Tatar element? I can only see 2% Central Asian.

[tchaiku]

Originally Posted by Amphipolis

Actually that says 73% has some Greek in them. By the way, where is the famous Tatar element? I can only see 2% Central Asian.

I know that I have said it before but Greekness has a different definition in MyAncestry.

[Amphipolis]

Originally Posted by tchaiku

I know that I have said it before but Greekness has a different definition in MyAncestry.

Really? Like what?

[tchaiku]

Originally Posted by Amphipolis

Really? Like what?

https://www.quora.com/What-exactly-d...r/Baris-Ates-1

[Carlin]

ANGLO-AMERICAN ACTION PLAN for Cyprus, dated June 6, 1964.

C. We should seek, therefore, a fundamental solution on the basis of Enosis with Greece which could be made more acceptable to Turkey by including territorial and other compensations.

D. Territorial compensations to Turkey might include: the Islands of Kastelorison, Samos, Chios, Kos or a piece of Greek Thrace immediately adjacent to Turkish Thrace. (Other possible territorial compensation should not be excluded. The objective should be to get the Greek and Turkish governments to enter into realistic bargaining).

[tchaiku]

There is no ethnic connection between the Greek-speaking population of Cyprus and the inhabitants of modern Greece. ( — Sir George Hill / The History of Cyprus — )

[Amphipolis]

Originally Posted by tchaiku

There is no ethnic connection between the Greek-speaking population of Cyprus and the inhabitants of modern Greece. ( — Sir George Hill / The History of Cyprus — )

https://www.myheritage.com/ethniciti...y-distribution - Sir my-heritage-DNA

[Karposh]

Originally Posted by Amphipolis

Actually that says 73% has some Greek in them. By the way, where is the famous Tatar element? I can only see 2% Central Asian.

Only 2% Central Asian, that’s really interesting. Here we have a people, the modern Bulgarians, that are so quick to ridicule their neighbours, the modern Macedonians, for choosing to associate themselves with the ancient Balkan tribe, made famous by Alexander and Phillip all those years ago, meanwhile, they have chosen to base their whole ethno-genesis on some insignificant, obscure and nomadic Central Asian warrior tribe that happened to bully its way through eastern Thrace and Moesia, subjugating the indigenous people as it passed through. But that’s their business entirely if they want to honour some random and non-European Turkic tribe by associating themselves with them. It only becomes a problem when they ridicule us for associating ourselves with the indigenous Ancient Macedonians which, only a fool would believe, have left no more than 2% of their DNA into the modern Macedonian genetic makeup. I think that’s the reason why the term ‘Tatari’ was coined by Macedonians in reference to modern Bulgarians – to put these lost Macedonians and Thracians in their place by shaming them with the Tatar tag. I’m pretty sure most Macedonians don’t actually believe the old Bulgars have left much of a genetic trace in their neighbours’ genetic makeup. The ‘Tatar’ tag is meant for ridicule only.

[tchaiku]

Cypriots are cheifly Middle Eastern + lot of European.
Pontic Greeks are predominantly Middle Eastern.

[Carlin]

Originally Posted by tchaiku

Cypriots are cheifly Middle Eastern + lot of European.
Pontic Greeks are predominantly Middle Eastern.

Maybe not for this thread, but I met & knew this Greek guy who was from southern Peloponnese, a native of Messenia. He told me, after several months (he opened up without me asking him anything), that on his mother's side - the grandparents still knew Arvanitika; but his mother only knew Greek. From his father's side, he said that his grandparents knew a little bit of Romanian.

I also had the opportunity to meet a few Greeks from Asia Minor and I was surprised that a couple of them did not even look Turkish or Iranian -- by their features, I thought they were from somewhere close to India or Pakistan. Other Pontians looked like mainland Greeks, Arvanites or Vlachs (one lady looked like she could be my mother's cousin or aunt). A Greek Cypriot also said that on his father's side they were Orthodox Arabic-speakers.