Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Kashmiri are Greek? How so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_region
Most people of Azad Kashmir are of Punjabi ethnicity and Punjab was part of the Indo-Greek kingdom created by Alexander the Great (Sikandar).
They have Greek ancestry along with Persian, Arab & Turkish ancestry.
Greeks still ruled parts of India even after Sikandar and ruled between 180 BC to AD 10
Originally posted by majid86
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_regionMost people of Azad Kashmir are of Punjabi ethnicity and Punjab was part of the Indo-Greek kingdom created by Alexander the Great (Sikandar).
They have Greek ancestry along with Persian, Arab & Turkish ancestry.
By that logic majority of Middle East is Greek and Macedonian. When...it's not.
I wasn't talking about the Middle East, im talking about Punjab only.
Punjab has a population of 115 million in which Greek genetic contribution has been estimated between 0% to 15%.
People tend to forget that Greeks actually ruled large parts of North India (Punjab, Kashmir, Gujarat, Sindh) for well over 200 years.
Originally posted by majid86
I wasn't talking about the Middle East, im talking about Punjab only.
Punjab has a population of 115 million in which Greek genetic contribution has been estimated between 0% to 15%.People tend to forget that Greeks actually ruled large parts of North India (Punjab, Kashmir, Gujarat, Sindh) for well over 200 years.
Yes, and Turks ruled Balkans, Middle East and parts of Africa for about 500 years, but that doesn't make Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Lebanese, Armenians and Egyptians, amongst others, Turks.
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Yes, and Turks ruled Balkans, Middle East and parts of Africa for about 500 years, but that doesn't make Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Lebanese, Armenians and Egyptians, amongst others, Turks.
I think you've gotten confused between modern Greeks and Indo-Greeks.
Im not of Greek cultural ancestry but of Indo-Greek GENETIC ancestry.
Indo-Greeks integrated into Indian society and eventually settled in India something the Turks never did except maybe Armenia.
Originally posted by majid86
I think you've gotten confused between modern Greeks and Indo-Greeks.
Im not of Greek cultural ancestry but of Indo-Greek GENETIC ancestry.Indo-Greeks integrated into Indian society and eventually settled in India something the Turks never did except maybe Armenia.
No, wrong. Turks did exactly that - there were massive forced population transfers in which Turks and Tartars were moved from Asia to Balkans and Greece to to reorder the landscape of the newly conquered lands. And Christians were transported from the new lands to Turkey and other parts of Middle East.