Let's talk about Sicily. >Muh Italo-Greco-Norman-Arab culture

What's life in rural Sicily in the modern day? Might be cool.

Mafia.

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>>2404131

Looks pretty comfy

Everything south of Rome is Greek.

>>2404131

I was there this summer on an archaeological dig. It's pretty comfy, but very very rustic with heavy mafia presence (though they don't really bother you). It's noticeably run down, quite a bit of garbage etc., and pretty poor but the people are kind, and the old ladies/grandads are super tiny. Lots of cool Catholic festivals as well

Was the use of Muslim administrators proof that Saracens were better at governing than Franks?

>there was a time when Carthage, Rome and the Greeks were fighting for control of this island

>>2404445
It was always Greek, even after Roman domination.

>>2404442
Saracens in turn used Sassanian Persian administration.

>>2404442
They were. A Tunisian noble/merchant who knows Latin, French, Greek and Arabic is going to be more useful than some Norman knight who arrived yesterday.

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>>2404615
El em ay oh

>>2404095
anybody have the image of the idiot who said that Sicily couldn't have been inhabited in ancient times?

>>2404147
>>2404131
>>2404427
>you will never live a simple life in a sunny Sicilian village growing olives and flirting with the qt neighbor

WHY. EVEN. LIVE

>>2404450
>>2404666
>>2404151
iirc genetic studies pretty much show that sicilians are mostly Greek.

>>2404643
That was Sardinia lol

>>2404685

>iirc genetic studies pretty much show that sicilians are mostly Greek.

Exactly.

Sicilian here, AMA.

>>2404898
How tall are you?

>>2404898
Who ate da fuckin gabagoo?

>>2404941
there's no fuckin gabagoo left tony ya doctah said no mah meat

>>2404898
does your height start with a 4

>>2404898
How does one snag a qt Sicilian gf?

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Roving feudal bands of brigands ruled Naples and Scicily for the Bourbons.

This is where the modern mafia came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigandage_in_southern_Italy_after_1861

>>2404994
It starts with an 1 since we don't employ the barbarian imperial system here.

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>>2405168
>He doesn't use the Imperial system for height and temperature but the Metric system for everything else
Top Pleb

what was that one greek monster that lived in a whirlpool around sicily?

>>2407089
charybdis? scylla? I forget which

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>>2407089

>>2404095
THE CROWN SICILY BELONGS TO THE DE HAUTEVILLES

>>2404615
then how did those Norman knights who arrived yesterday conquer Sicily and all Southern Italy?

>>2407089
You're thinking of Charbydis. Was that really supposed to be in Messina? I thought it would have been closer to Greece.

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