Guess 2 more women.

[Sikeliot]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4880739192_648a769fbc_m.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4338891551_b3f30d61ab_m.jpg

[Rouxinol]

1st - Spanish
2nd - Portuguese

(Ok, I'm gonna fail on these two, lol)

[Sikeliot]

You didn't get these.

[Rouxinol]

I think they could easily be from several places... Hard to tell only with those pics.

[Rouxinol]

Ok, second try:
1st - Italian
2nd - French

[Sikeliot]

Incorrect.

Answers are

1) Syrian
2) Palestinian

[Rouxinol]

Incorrect.

Answers are

1) Syrian
2) Palestinian

I would never get there...

[exceeder]

Incorrect.

Answers are

1) Syrian
2) Palestinian

Aye, thats why sometimes I think you can find some similarities between SOME southern europeans and SOME levantines, particularly with christians.
I find the first girl has a somewhat pontid appearance... second girl is VERY unclear due to the photo quality.

[Sikeliot]

Aye, thats why sometimes I think you can find some similarities between SOME southern europeans and SOME levantines, particularly with christians.

which southern european groups, and which levantines?

[exceeder]

which southern european groups, and which levantines?

Primarily greeks (including cretans and cypriots). I explained why in another post. And perhaps maltese, and southern italians like sicilians.
As for levantines, I would basically focus on groups like lebanese and coastal populations of Syria and Israel... perhaps with greater emphasis on the religion (christianity). While i generally think it is wrong, particularly in the modern context, to associate religion with ethnicity, but for populations like in lebanon, were as much as 10% of the population is greek orthodox (and 30 some % are maronite), there must be something deeper then faith that caused these peoples to stay seperate from the overwhelmingly majority of muslims in the region... however that is only my theory. I have no concrete evidence so you should only take what i say as my opinion. nothing more.
Again, its only on a case by case basis I would say. I would definetly NOT say that the general population of greece was equivalent to that of say lebanon.

[Blackruthenia]

I thought the first one looked Polish to be honest.

[Sikeliot]

I thought the first one looked Polish to be honest.

I would have said something like Romanian, so that's not too much of a stretch.

[Don]

[QUOTE=Labrador;378562]1st - Spanish /QUOTE]

I've never seen in all my life a Spaniard woman with these features. She is obviously foreigner, eastern.
Surprising coming from a portuguese.:confused:

[Rouxinol]

I've never seen in all my life a Spaniard woman with these features. She is obviously foreigner, eastern.
Surprising coming from a portuguese.:confused:

I just took a guess, she doesn't resemble anything I would say typical in the Iberian Peninsula. I thought cg93 was restricted to Europeans, then my guesses...

[exceeder]

I thought the first one looked Polish to be honest.

Perhaps because she seems to have a pontid phenotype.

Although the picture itself isn't too clear, and her hair is dyed.

[Peyrol]

You must remember that most part of Middle East were for centuries under the rule of the Hellenistic Kingdoms,and after under Eastern Roman Empire...some genetic traces have been remained.

[Foxy]

You must remember that most part of Middle East were for centuries under the rule of the Hellenistic Kingdoms,and after under Eastern Roman Empire...some genetic traces have been remained.

Not only, you are forgetting the Italian Sea Republics.

Venetian routes and empories:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Repubblica_di_Venezia.png/650px-Repubblica_di_Venezia.png

Red = dominions and territories
Pink dots = commercial colonies and empories

Geonese routes

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Espansione_di_Genova.jpg

Violet dots = colonies and main empories

Pisan routes

http://www.pisaoggi.it/images/storia/5.png

Green cubes = big empories and commercial colonies

Many areas of Turkey, Lebanon, Armenia, Israel have been in contact for centuries with Italian sailors, cruisaders and merchants. It's a fact that the Italian republic controlled the main cities of Middle East. It's not a case, in my opinion, that it is in that part of Middle East that you find most levantines with an Europid look.