[Agitoligflise]

Can any Italian users tell me if there were post-Roman Germanic or Slavic settlers near Benevento?

He is either a Goth or a Lombard.

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These phenotypes probably came from all the various European slaves the Romans brought over.

A very small part of modern Italians genepool derives from slaves.

[shihoodiacarf]

Can any Italian users tell me if there were post-Roman Germanic or Slavic settlers near Benevento?

i'm partly italian since my paternal grandmother was from southern italy. once she gave me a book explaining the slavic immigration in southern italy during the middle ages. the book reported that a number of slavic people from the coastal areas of croatia and montenegro settled in southern italy after having been invited by king ferdinand II of aragon (after the turkish conquest of the kingdoms of serbia and croatia).

the book, written in german, is entitled "SERBOKROATISCHEN KOLONIEN

SÜDITALIENS" . the author is Milan Rešetar. the book was printed in Vienna in 1911.

with regard to the german settlements, just remember the Longobard principalities in campania, folllowed by the german imperial domination under Frederick II Hohenstaufen. in more ancient times there was the gothic invasion, mentioned by a number of Late antiquity historians, which led to the Greek-gothic wars between goths and byzantines.

[khjhkfggt]

I' ve lived in Italy for years, he's to much blonde to be a pure Italian.

Please don't be ridicoulous. I know many Italians with that hair colour. Read Livi's work on Italians pigmentation.

[kesFockplek]

I don't think he would be something exceptional in the streets in Italy. But definitely not what you would see very often either. I have seen a Greek as blonde as him as well.

By the way, I bet Swedes that look like Southern Italians can be found. We're one continent after all and all countries share some looks, no matter how small.

[grinaJanoDant]

I don't think he would be something exceptional in the streets in Italy. But definitely not what you would see very often either. I have seen a Greek as blonde as him as well.

By the way, I bet Swedes that look like Southern Italians can be found. We're one continent after all and all countries share some looks, no matter how small.

Agree. I've also seen blond Greeks and Iberians. It's a look that pops up here and there throughout Southern Europe, maybe from the Germanic and Slavic invasions in the Dark Ages.

[bellson]

he looks italic and italian imo he could aso fits in the balkans. nothing germanic about him. blond hair isn't uncommon in most of Italy