Semitic colonies in Italy (pre-Roman times - Roman and Medieval)

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Corsica (not Italy) - Sicily and Sardinia, were employment centers Phoenician.

Arab colonies in central and southern Italy (including the islands)

Saracens in northern Italy, mainly in Liguria and Piedmont.

There are many legacies Semitic in Italy: place names with Arabic etymology, Phoenician and Akkadian, names and surnames of Arab origin - Jewish and Phoenician, In addition to evidendi tracks on dialectal languages.

Of course there are obvious traces of ethno anthropological lineage.