| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - While true that the Ottoman Turks ruled Greece for 400 years and that previous Byzantine rulers (e.g. Emperor Nikopherous) had to import colonists from present day south Italy to help repopulate parts of Greece ravaged by wars, many of these Italian colonists were themselves ancient Greek, settled in regions such as Calabria and Southern France since the times of Darius the Great and earlier.
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