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Related ethnic groups Italians , Greeks , Normans , Calabrians , Arbëreshë , Other people of the Mediterranean Sea The Sicilians ( Sicilian : Siciliani ), or Sicilian people , are a Romance -speaking European ethnic group who are indigenous to the island of Sicily , the largest island in the Mediterranean , as well as the largest and most ...
The history of Sicily has been influenced by numerous ethnic groups. It has seen Sicily controlled by powers, including Phoenician and Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Vandal and Ostrogoth, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, Aragonese, Spanish, Austrians, British, but also experiencing important periods of independence, as under the indigenous Sicanians ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Sicily" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... History of the Jews in Sicily; L. Lombards of Sicily; N.
The extent to which an archeological culture is representative of a particular cohesive ancient group of people is open for debate; many of these cultures may be the product of a single ancient Italian tribe or civilization (e.g. Latial culture), while others may have been spread among different groups of ancient Italian peoples and even ...
Map of Italy on the eve of the arrival of the Normans. The Lombards of Sicily came to Sicily from their homeland, the Kingdom of Lombardy. The Lombards of Sicily (Italian: Lombardi di Sicilia) are an ethnolinguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy, speaking an isolated variety of Gallo-Italic languages, the so-called Gallo-Italic of Sicily.
Conversely, Timaeus of Tauromenium (writing c. 300 BCE) considers the Sicani to be indigenous to Sicily. [6] A third theory, put forward by some modern scholars, suggests that the Sicani were immigrants, who gained control of areas previously inhabited by native tribes. [7]
Sicily in the 6th century BC; the Sicels are referred to as Sikeloi. Their neighbors to the west were the Sicani. The Sicels (/ ˈ s ɪ k əl z, ˈ s ɪ s əl z / SIK-əlz, SISS-əlz; Latin: Sicelī or Siculī) were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during the Iron Age. They spoke the Siculian language.
The Camminanti are a nomadic ethnic group living in Sicily. [1] They are closely associated with the Romani people, given their similar circumstances and lifestyles, and although they are not ethnic Romani, [2] they are legally considered to be so by the European Union. [3] [4] [5]