Re: Greek Mafia


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Posted by Themistokles on March 04, 2001 at 22:03:15:

In Reply to: Re: Greek Mafia posted by An Italian on March 02, 2001 at 09:41:53:

Ironically enough, the Sicilian Italians (and the Calabrese) are of Hellenic ancestry (for those who don't know, read up on "Magna Graecia"); the vast majority of these Italians are simply Greeks who had been forced by the Romans and later on by the Roman Catholic Church (around the 1500's) to convert to Roman Catholicism (there are still about 40,000 in these areas who today speak a variation of the ancient Doric dialects spoken by their ancestors).

-Themistokles


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