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Pontid is strong in Eastern and Southern Greece according to Lundman's maps.
It received a slavic bias in this forum, but Lundman had it mainly from East Romania over most of Greece and West Turkey.
In low frequencies it even extends to Bavaria and Baltic states. I saw
Italians of this type, too. Where I live, there are many Italians. But in Italy it is of course less frequent than in Balkan.
Sicily is still has many Gracile Med / Western Med, but with Pontid, Dinaro Med and other influences that you mentioned.
Why is that? Well the height length index (that main distinguishing feature between West and East Med)
is 74-78 in Greece, Balkan and West Asia. But in Sciliy it is only 72-74, almost as small as in Northern Iberia, where it is 70-72.
Dinaro Med in Biasutti's system was the Padana type, a Med subtype. It is similar to Dinarid,
but more gracile in facial traits and in stature and with narrower noses.
As you might suspect by the name he gave, it's storngest in Northern Italy, but still present in the South.
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