Re: The "Sea People" were Greeks


"SteveT" <nextbigthing1024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:sm28h15s58b9e10t7krspl793s8po9tt7s@xxxxxxxxxx 
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:30:03 +0300, "gogu" <golanule@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I don't know much but IIRC they were called "Pelestes" alas the name
"Palestinians".
Is it possible that the Palestinians are descendants of those first
(Hellenic
?...) colonists ?
Is there any truth in that ?

tnx 

I remember the term "Peleset", & no doubt there are many ways of
interpretting Egyptian which arrive at different spellings. I' not
sure about "Hellenic", most people seem to describe the incomers as
"Aegean". It also seems that they integrated with the local population
quite quickly. So my impression is that "Palestinian" might be derived
from "Peleset", but that the Palestinians probably remain a Canaanite
people who "absorbed" some Aegean immigrants.


Rubbish.

The Peleset were Pelasgian Greeks and linguistic analyses of their names and inscriptions have proven this.



Steve 

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