>>149771417No one in Europe is really โpureโ.
In Italyโs case people often overrate the fact that different parts of the peninsula had different rulers as an evidence, but that accounts to little.
The point is that in the Late Roman Empire the genetics of Italy changed a lot because of the Empireโs internal migrations, and that didnโt change much over the centuries after the fall of Rome, as foreigner rulers were mostly an elite minority that ended ep being assimilated.
See the Franks, they managed to give their name to France, but they ended up being assimilated by the much more large romance people (same case in Lombardy).
Despite that Italians still retains much of the Neolithic genetics (Italo-Celtics).
Italian identity is mostly a cultural thing though, but thatโs the idea behind every European National States.