Brennus, the leader of Gauls

1) Kolokotronis, Kanaris, Diakos and Karaiskakis, were not Arvanites . In contrast to what many Albanian bloggers and youtubers claim,  official sources indicate the particular heroes of the Greek revolution didn't have partially or fully Arvanite ancestry . Kolokotronis, was from Ramavouni of Messenia, Kanaris was from the island of Psara, Diakos from Fokhis and Karaiskakis from Skoulikaria, a community in Arta. None of these communities is recorded to be inhabited by Albanian/Arvanite or other non-Greek speaking populations. Among these four leaders, only Karaiskakis speaked Albanian, not because he was an Arvanite himself, but because he was captured by the Albanian Ali Pasha of Ioannina, and later served his house, where he learned speaking Albanian. 2) The vast majority of the revolutionaries were not Arvanites. In contrast to what Albanian internet users promote, official sources indicate that only the 10-20% out of the 30.000 recorded surnames that particip...

Geographically, Greece is anything but western, as it lies approximately between latitudes 34° and 42° N, and longitudes 19° and 30° E However, for historical reasons, Greece, especially during the last millennium, interacted mostly with the west, as a result, most of bibliography today, includes it in the Western Europe The westernization process in Greece: The main reason that Greece is considered a western country, is that it gave birth to modern western civilization", as Greek and Roman culture were the main contributors and affected European culture and mentality during the age of enlightenment, more than anything else. However, the following article will focus in other and more unknown facts about Greece as part of the western world: As early as 12-15 th centuries, most of Greece was under Venetian, Frankish and Catalan dominance, The impact of these years is reflected in many aspects of its culture, such as is architecture (with the exception of particul...

" Nowhere in historic times is there any valid evidence that the upper classes of one area differed in culture from those of another because of racial background, nor within any one people did the upper and lower classes have basically different cultural inheritances. Modern assertions that the masters preserved a Nordic outlook and so were more capable of culture are pure nonsense, bred of modern racial prejudice, not of the ancient evidence. ” Starr, 1991, the origins of Greek civilization Racial types of ancient Greeks in upper classes : (note, most of Greeks who built the ancient Greek civilization (science, philosophy, arts etc) which is the reason that we know ancient Greece today,  rarely even belonged to the upper classes,   most of them were part of the middle class, and some of them even poorer, such as Socrates i will start with some ancient Greeks in the  upper classes, classified as Nordic looking 1)Demosthenes Nordic iranic, because of...