Originally Posted By: LittleNicky
Originally Posted By: cornuto_e_contento
I have met Sicilian American people who look very Iberian or Spanish; but then I read about how people from what's now Valencia in Spain went there.


There was a union between Aragon and the kingdom of Naples (which included sicily) in the late 1400s. It was later part of the spanish empire/Habsburg Monarchy. So there is a decent amount of spanish blood in addition to the berber, norman, french, german, greek, etc etc. Might have among the most diverse blood lines on earth.


OK I meant long before that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicani

The Sicani are thought to be the oldest inhabitants of Sicily with a recorded name. The Greek historian Thucydides[1] claimed they immigrated from the Iberian Peninsula (perhaps Valencia)