Ralphie Boy
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Nobody is saying that Slavs didn't settle in the Peloponnese. Even the authors of this study say Slavs settled in the area, through their data. What they're saying is that the modern Greeks are genetically distant from certain other Slavic populations. This is valid because the Balkans didn't have the Slavic language until medieval times. That means Slavs came from somewhere else, or at the very least, the northern fringes of the Balkans.
As far as Slavs being already mixed with native Balkan populations when they entered the Peloponnese, that's possible. There are studies in which Greeks are not too distant genetically from other modern Balkan populations--which as others have said is because of many hundreds if not thousands of years of interaction.
This is a good study to me because of the closeness of Peloponnesians and southern Italians and Sicilians. It has strong implications of the survival of native Balkan populations, as opposed to the region being overrun by Turks and Slavs, and the locals dying out through attrition, migration or being killed off outright.
As far as Slavs being already mixed with native Balkan populations when they entered the Peloponnese, that's possible. There are studies in which Greeks are not too distant genetically from other modern Balkan populations--which as others have said is because of many hundreds if not thousands of years of interaction.
This is a good study to me because of the closeness of Peloponnesians and southern Italians and Sicilians. It has strong implications of the survival of native Balkan populations, as opposed to the region being overrun by Turks and Slavs, and the locals dying out through attrition, migration or being killed off outright.