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The aboriginal inhabitants of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, were tribes known to the ancient Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicanians, and the Sicels, the last being an Indo-European-speaking people of possible Italic affiliation, who migrated from the Italian mainland (likely from the Amalfi Coast or Calabria via the Strait of Messina) during the second millennium BC, after ...
This category includes articles on ethnic groups in Sicily. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. G. Sicilian Greeks (6 C ...
Temple of Segesta. 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, Elymians, Sicels, the Greek ...
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]
The ancestors of Italians are mostly Indo-European speakers (Italic peoples such as Latins, Umbrians, Samnites, Oscans, Sicels and Adriatic Veneti, as well as Celts, Iapygians and Greeks) and pre-Indo-European speakers (Etruscans, Ligures, Rhaetians and Camunni in mainland Italy, Sicani and Elymians in Sicily and the Nuragic people in Sardinia).
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.
Sicily: the Italic Sicels and Morgetes, ... Many non-European ethnic groups and nationalities have migrated to Europe over the centuries. Some arrived centuries ago ...
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.