Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Greek presence in Italy is dated to the time of the Old Greek Diaspora in the 8th century BC. Today the community consists of some 30,000 people, most of whom are to be found in Central Italy. There are also ancient Greek communities in the South and Sicily (the old Magna Graecia region) that speak a distinctive dialect of Greek called Griko. Although most of the Greek inhabitants of Southern Italy became entirely Italianized during the Middle Ages (as Paestum had already been in the 4th century BC), pockets of Greek culture and language remained and survived into modern times. This is due to the fact that the "traffic" between southern Italy and the Greek mainland never entirely stopped. Thus, for example, Greeks re-colonized the region in the 16th and 17th century. This happened in reaction to the conquest of the Peloponnese by the Osman Turks.

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