Originally Posted by
brennus dux gallorum
Samos was not repopulated exclusively by mainlanders or to be more precise most of its new population was not from the mainland! There was repopulation of the island from lesvos, asia minor dodecanese ikaria etc only a small part came from the mainland, and no nothing "surely happened to other islands" as there's no document supporting that, and again an example that directly comes to mind is lesvos and chios, both never repopulated by mainlanders in recent history, but they still have a basic difference from dodecanese: geographical distance from the levant, which results higher percentages of ev13. The same goes for paros naxos etc.. when did they lose their population to be repopulated and mostly by mainlanders?
And that's what i mean, yes dodecanese is the most distant from the mainland, but that was not different in antiquity, you know. If medieval invaders didn't reach dodecanese, ancient Greek invaders reached to a lower amount and assimilated a higher amount of levantine mixed natives as well. And again, there was no so decisive immigration from the mainland to Crete recorded to make the percentage of ev13 in Crete so significantly higher than dodecanese