Italian genes: Italian Blood in Europe according to 23andme

[Laberia]

crete and cyprus aare the most italian places outside italy then

Venetians.

[SardiniaAtlantis]

Rape

No, when Italians are involved the other side is usually very willing.

[Lavrentis]

Venetians.

It's gene similarity and not ancestry.

[GiCa]

i doubt.. this dectects also ancestry

[Laberia]

It's gene similarity and not ancestry.

And why the highest concentration is in Crete and Cyprus two ex-colonies of Venice?

[Oneeye]

No, when Italians are involved the other side is usually very willing.

Sounds pretty rapey.

[MinervaItalica]

Spoiler!

What a stupid map... ah it's Eupedia...

Cyprus is more green than Ticino where people are basically Italian there...

Istria and Dalmatia completely white...

[Sikeliot]

This is the description given on Eupedia:

"his map has a distribution that seems to include mostly the non-Celtic/Germanic ancestry in Italy. Despite the heavy ancient Greek colonisation of southern Italy, this admixture is quite distinct from the Greek one, except in the Aegean Islands, Anatolia and Cyprus, where 23andMe doesn't seem to distinguish between Italian and Greek ancestry. This is because insular Greeks are very close genetically from South Italians. This admixture seems to be found exclusively within the boundaries of the Roman Empire, and consequently might well have been spread outside Italy/Greece by the ancient Romans. The hotspots in Galicia and central/southern Portugal can be explained by the high percentage of Roman colonies in those regions, but also perhaps by the displacement of the substantial Roman population from western Andalusia to Portugal over the centuries."

And the map:

[Sikeliot]

Istria and Dalmatia completely white...

This means Croats have very little Italian-like ancestry, which has been eliminated by the Slavic invasion and influence from East-Central Europe. Frankly, I am not surprised at all. From the photos of Croatians they look very distinct from both Austrians and northern Italians.

[Smitty]

If it were entirely attributable to the Roman Empire, it should exist across the Middle East and North Africa as well.