I've read that a few times, but I find it hard to believe. It's like the Pilgrims come to Massachusetts in 1620 and abandon English and take up whatever language the local Indians speak. Comments?
I've read that a few times, but I find it hard to believe. It's like the Pilgrims come to Massachusetts in 1620 and abandon English and take up whatever language the local Indians speak. Comments?
I've read that a few times, but I find it hard to believe. It's like the Pilgrims come to Massachusetts in 1620 and abandon English and take up whatever language the local Indians speak. Comments?
That's not what happened. The Slavs pushed the Greek-speakers out, then the Byzantines subsequently reconquered Greece and re-Hellenized it, through force and importation of Greek-speakers from elsewhere.
I've read that a few times, but I find it hard to believe. It's like the Pilgrims come to Massachusetts in 1620 and abandon English and take up whatever language the local Indians speak. Comments?
through force and importation of Greek-speakers from elsewhere.
Didn't a lot of them come from Byzantine Southern Italy, (which would form the later basis for Mussolini claiming that Greece and Italy were as one) or did I just dream that?
Didn't a lot of them come from Byzantine Southern Italy, (which would form the later basis for Mussolini claiming that Greece and Italy were as one) or did I just dream that?
I think it was both actually. After folks realized just what a futz Justinian made with his Italian shenanigans, they started evacuating folks from Sicily and southern Italy. A lot of folks from the frontiers of Anatolia (Probably because of poverty and/or constant raids in those territories forcing people to move) and folks from the capital (government administrators, go figure), but of course, that kind of information tends to be sketchy (It was the early Middle Ages, afterall) and I could well be wrong.I thought it was Greeks from Anatolia, because up until the Turks came it was the Byzantine power base, most Greek-speaking people, more than enough to settle in Greece.
After that, how can you really tell how much of modern Greece is ethnically slavic, and, much more importantly, what does it matter?