Topic summary
Proto-Greeks
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Greeks.
Origins
The Proto-Greeks probably arrived in the area now called Greece, in the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, sometime during the European Bronze Age (c. 3rd millennium BC). The sequence of migrations into the Greek mainland has to be reconstructed on the basis of the ancient Greek dialects, as they presented themselves centuries later and are therefore subject to some uncertainties. There were at least two migrations, the first being the Ionians and Achaeans, which resulted in Mycenaean Greece by the 16th century BC, and the second, the Dorian invasion, around the 11th century BC, displacing the Arcadocypriot dialects, which descended from the Mycenaean period.