Hellas

It is built for people with roots in mainland Greece and the wider Greek world: the Peloponnese, Attica and Central Greece, Mani, Thessaly, Epirus, Greek Macedonia, Thrace, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese and the eastern Aegean, and the Greeks of Ionia, Cappadocia and the Pontus, across 11 communities. Families of Greek descent in the Americas, Australia and elsewhere can use it too. For other ancestry the Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

No, and no honest test can. The report shows which period populations of the Greek world you resemble, from the first farmers and the Mycenaeans to the Classical, Hellenistic and Byzantine Greeks. Every population of the region, like every population anywhere, is a mixture of these layers: a share is a genetic similarity to the people sampled at a few sites, never a measure of identity and never proof of descent from a particular people, king or hero.

Slavic groups settled in much of Greece from the late 6th century and were absorbed into the Greek-speaking population; Albanian-speaking communities (the Arvanites) settled in southern and central Greece from the 14th century; Turkic-speaking groups reached Anatolia from the 11th century. The report measures your resemblance to early medieval Slavic settlers, to individuals from medieval and early modern Albania and to Turkic-speaking incomers, each in its own period, and explains their limits: no medieval genome from mainland Greece has been published yet, so the Slavic share is best read as an upper bound, and Albanian and northern Greek profiles overlap. These shares are resemblances, never statements about language, identity or nationality.

Yes. The Asia Minor Greeks of Ionia, the Cappadocian Greeks and the Pontic Greeks each have their own community reference, and the ancient layers include the Greek cities and the Byzantine world of Asia Minor. These communities share much of their ancestry with their Anatolian, Armenian and Caucasus neighbours, the result of a long common history: the report explains this plainly, as genetic similarity and never as a statement about identity.

Crete and Cyprus are told in depth by our Thalassa report, which models the islands' own layers (Minoans, Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans). The Ionian Islands have too few published modern genomes for a reference of their own, so an Ionian profile is read through its closest neighbours (Epirus, the Peloponnese, southern Italy), and the report says so.

Neighbouring Greek communities are genetically close to each other (most about 0.009 to 0.015 from their nearest neighbour; the Dodecanese, Cappadocian and Pontic references stand further apart), so the closest community is a closest reference and not a proven origin, island or village. When two or more communities are tied, the report says so.

Yes. The free Report Finder reads your raw DNA file (or your G25) and tells you honestly whether Hellas is a good match for you, before you spend anything.

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

€15. A full PDF report with your ancient regional core %, non-regional outside admixture breakdown, seven period-by-period breakdowns, closest modern community reference populations, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups (if raw file provided), and a narrative interpreted by Claude AI, in English, Greek, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish or Russian.