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Iapyges/Ἰάπυγες [Messapi / Dauni / Peuceti] of the South East (Apulia) are from a separate Indo-European branch much like the Indo-European Veneti/ἐνετοί of the North East;
- in contrast to the Indo-European Umbrians (ITALICS) of the Po Valley and Apennines;
Iapyges language (termed Messapic) known from ~300 inscriptions is Indo-European and considered to be from or closely related to Illyrian;
Greek Mythology however links the Iapyges/Ἰάπυγες to the Cretans - descendants from Iapyx
Herodotus - Book VII/CLXX
All their vessels were broken in pieces; and so, as they saw no means of returning to Crete, they founded the town of Hyria, where they took up their abode, changing their name from Cretans to Messapian Iapygians, and at the same time becoming inhabitants of the mainland instead of islanders. From Hyria they afterwards founded those other towns which the Tarentines at a much later period endeavoured to take, but could not, being defeated signally. Indeed so dreadful a slaughter of Greeks never happened at any other time, so far as my knowledge extends: nor was it only the Tarentines who suffered; but the men of Rhegium too, who had been forced to go to the aid of the Tarentines by Micythus the son of Choerus, lost here three thousand of their citizens; while the number of the Tarentines who fell was beyond all count.
Hyria = the modern-day Oria
Strabo - Book VI/CDXXV
They say that these Cretans were the party who sailed with Minos to Sicily, and that after his death, which took place at Camici, in the palace of Cocalus, they took ship and set sail from Sicily, but in their voyage they were cast by tempest on this coast, some of whom, afterwards coasting the Adriatic on foot, reached Macedonia, and were called Bottiaei. They further add, that all the people who reach as far as Daunia were called Iapygians, from Iapyx, who was born to Daedalus by a Cretan woman, and became a chief leader of the Cretans.
- in contrast to the Indo-European Umbrians (ITALICS) of the Po Valley and Apennines;
Iapyges language (termed Messapic) known from ~300 inscriptions is Indo-European and considered to be from or closely related to Illyrian;
Greek Mythology however links the Iapyges/Ἰάπυγες to the Cretans - descendants from Iapyx
Herodotus - Book VII/CLXX
All their vessels were broken in pieces; and so, as they saw no means of returning to Crete, they founded the town of Hyria, where they took up their abode, changing their name from Cretans to Messapian Iapygians, and at the same time becoming inhabitants of the mainland instead of islanders. From Hyria they afterwards founded those other towns which the Tarentines at a much later period endeavoured to take, but could not, being defeated signally. Indeed so dreadful a slaughter of Greeks never happened at any other time, so far as my knowledge extends: nor was it only the Tarentines who suffered; but the men of Rhegium too, who had been forced to go to the aid of the Tarentines by Micythus the son of Choerus, lost here three thousand of their citizens; while the number of the Tarentines who fell was beyond all count.
Hyria = the modern-day Oria
Strabo - Book VI/CDXXV
They say that these Cretans were the party who sailed with Minos to Sicily, and that after his death, which took place at Camici, in the palace of Cocalus, they took ship and set sail from Sicily, but in their voyage they were cast by tempest on this coast, some of whom, afterwards coasting the Adriatic on foot, reached Macedonia, and were called Bottiaei. They further add, that all the people who reach as far as Daunia were called Iapygians, from Iapyx, who was born to Daedalus by a Cretan woman, and became a chief leader of the Cretans.