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Firstly, Italians are a Caucasian populace. The original people of Italy are the ancient Italic tribes, the earliest recorded peoples on the peninsula. They were of Indo-European heritage like many other European peoples. The Celtic people had a strong presence in the northern regions of Italy, while Italic tribes and the Etruscans populated the centre. Italic tribes and Greek settlers settled the south. The Romans, an Italic tribe, came to be a powerful force eventually conquering Italy and the European continent. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Germanic tribes invaded Italy and settled. The Arabs invaded Sicily and Puglia and colonised those regions for 200 years until Norman French mercenaries liberated these areas from Islamic rule and started to expel the Arab population. Italians from central and northern regions were brought down to replace the exiled Arab populace. Other peoples to settle and rule Italy were the French, Spanish, and Austrians. All in all, Italians are essentially a Italic, Roman (also Italic) people with some Greek and Celtic influence as well, as well as smaller European peoples that stepped foot in Italy.

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The original peoples were fairly stable, until about 2000BC, probably because of the Alps to the North preventing wholesale invasion. The major ethnic groups at that time, on the Italian peninsula, were Etrurian; Oscan, Umbrian; Italic; Sicel; Sabine and Ligurian plus a handful of others including some Celtic peoples.

After that there were a number of invasions (Greek; Arab; Carthaginian; Germanic; Frankish; Goth; Visigoth; Ostrogoth; Lombard; Byzantine; Norman and Arab) which had varying degrees of success at colonisation

From around 1200AD onwards there were fewer major invasions though the genetic makeup of Italy was still influenced by migration from the East and South (Albanian; Turkic; Macedonian and Mediterranean Arab cultures)

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its 76 %male and 24 %women

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