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Italia

Your Italian Roots, Era by Era

For people with roots in mainland Italy, from the Alps and the Po valley to Tuscany, Rome, the Apennines, Campania, Apulia and Calabria, and for Italian families abroad. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core (the first farmers and the Iceman's Alpine world, the Bell Beakers, the Terramare and the Apennine Bronze Age, the Etruscans, Latins and Picenes, the Cisalpine Gauls, Republican and Imperial Rome, the Lombards and medieval Italy) and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 12 communities is your closest reference, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (first farmers, Bell Beakers, Terramare)
⚔️ Etruscans, Latins, Picenes, Celts, Romans and Lombards
🇮🇹 12 Italian communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 7 periods, from the Deep past to the Middle Ages
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI, in English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French or German

⚠️ Designed for people with roots in mainland Italy. Works for any of the 12 communities, from the Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Lombardy and the Veneto to Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Umbria and the Marche, Abruzzo and Molise, Campania, Apulia, Calabria and Basilicata, and for Italian families abroad (Italian-American, Italian-Canadian, Italian-Australian, Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian of Italian descent). If your roots are in Sicily, Sardinia or Malta, Thalassa tells the islands in depth; for Switzerland, Austria and the German-speaking Alps see Mitteleuropa, for France France Profonde, for Spain and Portugal Hesperia, for Croatia, Serbia and the Balkans Balkan Frontier. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the fit will be poor and our Advanced Ancestry Report is a better choice. Not sure? The free Report Finder tells you.

Who it is for

Northern Italians from the Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy (and Italian-speaking Switzerland), the Veneto, Trentino and Friuli.
Emilians and Romagnoli, Tuscans, and people from Lazio, Umbria and the Marche.
Abruzzesi and Molisani, Campanians and the families of Naples, Salerno and Benevento.
Apulians (including the Griko of Salento), Lucanians and Calabrians.
People with Sicilian roots get Sicily as a closest reference; the island itself is told in depth by Thalassa.
Diaspora families in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Australia and elsewhere whose DNA is mostly Italian.

1. Choose your community

Pick the community your family comes from. Not sure, or mixed origins (one grandparent from the North, one from the South)? Choose "Let the model decide" and we compare you to every community automatically. Neighbouring Italian communities are genetically close to each other, so the result is always a closest reference, never a provincial call.

Aosta Valley

The Aosta Valley, a Franco-Provencal-speaking valley of the western Alps: the Salassi of the Iron Age, the Roman colony of Augusta Praetoria, then Burgundian, Frankish and Savoyard rule; genetically the most Alpine of the Italian references

Northwest Italian (Piedmont, Liguria)

Piedmont and Liguria: the Ligures and the Celtic Taurini, Roman Augusta Taurinorum and Genua, the Lombard and Frankish kingdoms, then Savoy and the Republic of Genoa; mostly Piedmontese samples, with one Ligurian

Lombardy and Ticino (Lombardy, Bergamo, Italian Switzerland)

Lombardy and Italian-speaking Switzerland (Ticino): the Remedello and Golasecca cultures, the Insubres and Cenomani of Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Mediolanum, the Lombard kingdom of Pavia that gave the region its name, then the communes and the Duchy of Milan

Northeast Italian (Veneto, Trentino, Friuli)

Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli: the pile dwellings and the ancient Veneti, the Raeti of the Alps, Roman Aquileia, the Lombard duchies of Friuli and Trento, then the Venetian Republic

Emilian (Emilia-Romagna)

Emilia-Romagna: the Terramare of the Bronze Age, Etruscan Felsina (Bologna) and Spina, the Boii and Senones of Cisalpine Gaul, the Via Aemilia and Byzantine Ravenna; a small reference of Emilian samples

Tuscan

Tuscany, heartland of the Etruscans (Volterra, Vetulonia, Chiusi, Populonia), then Roman Etruria, Lombard Lucca and the medieval city-states of Florence, Siena and Pisa

Central Italian (Lazio, Umbria, Marche)

Lazio, Umbria and the Marche: Latins, Sabines, Umbrians and Picenes, Rome and its hinterland, later the Papal States; the reference combines Lazio, Umbria and Marche samples

Abruzzese and Molisan (Abruzzo, Molise)

Abruzzo and Molise, the central Apennines of the Samnites, Marsi, Vestini and Frentani, later part of the Kingdom of Naples

Campanian

Campania: Oscans and Samnites, the Greek colonies of Cumae, Neapolis and Paestum, Roman Pompeii and the Bay of Naples, the Lombard duchy of Benevento, then the Norman and Angevin Kingdom of Naples

Apulian (Apulia, with the Griko of Salento)

Apulia: the Daunians, Peucetians and Messapians, Greek Taras (Taranto), Roman Apulia, Byzantine and Norman rule; the reference includes the Greek-speaking Griko of Salento

Calabrian and Lucanian (Calabria, Basilicata)

Calabria and Basilicata (ancient Bruttium and Lucania): Italic Lucanians and Bruttians, the Greek cities of Sybaris, Croton, Locri, Rhegium and Metapontum, then Byzantine, Norman and Neapolitan rule

Sicilian (island reference)

Sicily, given here as a closest reference only: the island's own layers (Sicani, Phoenicians, Greeks, Arabs, Normans) are told in depth by the Thalassa report; Davidski and Moriopoulos Collection Sicilian samples

🔎 Let the model decide (auto)

We detect which community you are genetically closest to.

What your report models, era by era

🦴 Deep ancestry

The Epigravettian and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Italy, Anatolian, Levantine and Iranian farmers, steppe herders and the Caucasus hunter-gatherers: the prehistoric building blocks of every profile.

🌾 Neolithic and Copper Age

The first farmers who reached southern Italy by sea from about 6000 BC, the Alpine world of the Tyrolean Iceman and Remedello, the Copper Age of the Centre and South, and the Bell Beakers who brought the first steppe-related ancestry from about 2200 BC.

⚱️ Bronze Age

The Polada culture of the northern lakes, the Terramare of the Po valley, the Bronze Age of Lazio and the Apennine culture of the South, with a clearly labelled later layer for the eastern Mediterranean ancestry that reached Italy afterwards, so that the Bronze Age populations themselves can be read correctly.

🛡️ Iron Age

The Etruscans, Latins and Picenes (one merged reference, as they cannot be told apart in G25), the Cisalpine Gauls of the Po valley, with the Greek colonists of Magna Graecia and the Phoenicians of western Sicily and Sardinia as period proxies, a labelled later layer, and Celts and Illyrians, always added on top of the Italian base.

🏛️ Roman era

Imperial Rome, a cosmopolitan city whose people carried much eastern Mediterranean ancestry, and the Roman-era Italians of local Italic profile, with Levantine, Greek, North African and Gaulish proxies for people who moved within the Empire.

⚔️ Late Antiquity

The end of the Western Empire, the Ostrogoths and the Lombards who entered Italy in 568 (a reference built only from burials of north-western European profile), the Romance-speaking locals of the North and Late Antique Rome, with a Byzantine proxy, c. AD 400 to 700.

🏰 Medieval

Lombard-kingdom northern Italy, medieval Tuscany, Rome and the South, with the Normans, the Byzantine Greeks, Muslim Sicily and medieval Central Europe as outside proxies.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from Italy, we include wider European, Levantine, North African, Sub-Saharan, East Asian and Amerindian proxies, so any real outside ancestry is detected honestly instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🇮🇹 Closest communities

Which of the 12 communities your DNA most closely resembles, ranked by distance. Neighbouring communities are close genetically, the southern ones especially, so this is a closest reference: near-ties are shown as ties.

🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA lineages

If your raw DNA file is available, we classify your paternal and maternal haplogroups in an Italian context (e.g. R1b-U152, J2, G2a, E-V13, R1b-Z2103, I1; maternal H, K, J, T, U5), always as one line among thousands of ancestors.

76 reference populations

Your DNA is modelled against ancient Italian populations, modern community reference populations, and non-regional outside proxies (steppe, Aegean, Roman-period and wider European sources).

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Bronze Age sources

Aegean Bronze Age (Minoan Crete, Mycenaean Greece and western Anatolia, non-regional proxy) · Bronze Age central Italy (Lazio: Pian Sultano, Grotta Regina Margherita) · Bronze Age southern Italy (Apennine culture: Coppa Nevigata, Roca, Grotta della Monaca) · Early Bronze Age northern Italy (Polada culture; Trentino, Veneto, Lombardy, c. 2200-1600 BC) · Han Bronze Age proxy (East Asian) · Later layer: Roman-era eastern Mediterranean incomers (Imperial Rome, 1st-3rd c. AD), Bronze Age model · Middle and Late Bronze Age northern Italy (Terramare age; Veneto, Trentino, South Tyrol) · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya) outside source · Yoruba Bronze Age proxy (West African)

Deep ancestral sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG, Kotias) · Han (East Asian proxy) · Iranian Neolithic farmer (Ganj Dareh) · Italian Epigravettian and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (WHG: Villabruna, Riparo Tagliente, Calabria, Tuscany, Trentino) · Levantine Neolithic farmer (PPNB) · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya, Samara) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

European host

Balkan European (Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian) · NW European · SW European · West European

Iron Age sources

Cisalpine Gauls (Cenomani of Verona, 2nd-1st c. BC) · Etruscans, Latins and Picenes, Iron Age central Italy (Etruria, Lazio and early Rome, the Marche; 9th-1st c. BC) · Greek world of the colonies and Asia Minor (Magna Graecia proxy: Greeks of Himera, Greek and Carian cities of Asia Minor; non-regional proxy) · Hallstatt and La Tene Celts beyond the Alps (Burgundy, Champagne; non-regional proxy) · Han Iron Age proxy (East Asian) · Illyrians and the eastern Adriatic Iron Age (Croatia, Slovenia; non-regional proxy) · Later layer: Roman-era eastern Mediterranean incomers (Imperial Rome, 1st-3rd c. AD), Iron Age model · Phoenicians of Levantine profile (Iron Age Tyre-Sidon coast and Akhziv, Levantine-profile Punic burials of Lilybaeum and Tharros; non-regional proxy) · Yoruba Iron Age proxy (West African)

Late Antiquity and Migration-period sources

Byzantine East Mediterranean (Aegean Anatolia, East Roman proxy) · Han Late Antiquity proxy (East Asian) · Late Antique Rome and central Italy (Rome, Pesaro, Mediterranean-profile burials of Collegno; 4th-7th c.) · Late Roman and Romance-speaking locals of northern Italy (South Tyrol, Turin, Bardonecchia, Collegno; 5th-7th c.) · Lombards, north-western European profile (Lombard-period burials of Szolad, Bohemia, Collegno and Turin, 5th-8th c.) · Roman-period North Africa, Numido-Roman Berber (non-regional proxy) · Yoruba Late Antiquity proxy (West African)

Medieval sources

Byzantine Greeks (Aegean Anatolia and Chios, non-regional proxy) · Early medieval Piedmont, Collegno (7th-8th c., local and northern-profile families of one cemetery) · Early medieval Tuscany and northern Lazio (Siena, Grosseto, Viterbo, Castel Sozzio; 6th-10th c.) · Han Medieval proxy (East Asian) · Medieval and early modern Rome (9th-17th c.) · Medieval German-speaking Central Europe (Bavaria and Alemannia, non-regional proxy) · Medieval southern Italy (Venosa in Basilicata, Ordona and Foggia in Apulia; 8th-13th c.) · Muslim Sicily, Arab and Berber-influenced (Segesta, 9th-12th c.; non-regional proxy) · Norman and Norse proxy (Viking Age Denmark and Norway, non-regional proxy) · Yoruba Medieval proxy (West African)

Modern Italian communities

Abruzzese and Molisan (Abruzzo, Molise) · Aosta Valley · Apulian (Apulia, with the Griko of Salento) · Calabrian and Lucanian (Calabria, Basilicata) · Campanian · Central Italian (Lazio, Umbria, Marche) · Emilian (Emilia-Romagna) · Lombardy and Ticino (Lombardy, Bergamo, Italian Switzerland) · Northeast Italian (Veneto, Trentino, Friuli) · Northwest Italian (Piedmont, Liguria) · Sicilian (island reference) · Tuscan

Neolithic and Copper Age sources

Bell Beakers of northern Italy (c. 2200-2000 BC, first steppe-related ancestry) · Copper Age central and southern Italy (Rinaldone, Gaudo, La Sassa) · Early and Middle Neolithic farmers of peninsular Italy (Impressed Ware and painted pottery; Apulia, Lazio, Marche, Calabria) · Han Neolithic proxy (East Asian) · Neolithic and Copper Age northern Italy (Square-Mouthed Pottery, the Iceman, Remedello, Trentino, Romagna) · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya), Copper Age outside source · Yoruba Neolithic proxy (West African)

Roman-era sources

Han Classical proxy (East Asian) · Imperial Rome and Roman Italy, eastern Mediterranean-shifted majority (Rome, Ostia area, Pompeii, Marche; 1st-4th c. AD) · Roman Gaul and the Danube provinces (Metz, Klosterneuburg, Ovilava; non-regional proxy) · Roman Greece and Asia Minor (Aegean Anatolia, Corinth; non-regional proxy) · Roman Levant (Classical) · Roman North Africa, Numido-Roman Berber (Sitifis, Mauretania) · Roman-era Italians of local Italic and Etruscan profile (Etruria, Lazio, Marche; 2nd c. BC - 5th c. AD) · Yoruba Classical proxy (West African)

How it works, and its limits

🔬 How to read your results (please read)

Your result is computed by genetic similarity (Global25): we place your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space and find the mixture of reference populations that best reproduces your profile, era by era. The reference populations use G25 coordinates built from published ancient-DNA studies and modern reference samples; none of our reference data is simulated.

Reference populations are statistical proxies: "Etruscans, Latins and Picenes" or "Imperial Rome" means a few dozen individuals sampled at a handful of sites, not a whole people. An Etruscan-like, Greek-like or Lombard-like percentage is a similarity to those samples, not proof of an ethnicity or a specific ancestor. "Etruscan", "Italic", "Greek", "Celtic" and "Lombard" are language and culture labels, not genetic categories.

Genetics is not identity: this report is not a national, regional or political determination. Neighbouring Italian communities are close in G25 (each about 0.006 to 0.020 from its nearest neighbour), so the closest community is a best-fit reference and not a proven origin. No medieval genomes from the Aosta Valley, Lombardy, the North-East or Emilia-Romagna have been published yet, and no genome from the Greek colonies of mainland Magna Graecia: the report says so when it matters for you.

Why one report for all of mainland Italy? North and South share the same story, the first farmers, the Bell Beakers, the Italic Iron Age, Rome and the Lombards, with their own emphases: more Alpine and Central European contacts in the North, more eastern Mediterranean ancestry in the Centre and South, built up over many centuries.

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Is Italia right for your DNA?

Paste your G25 coordinates or drop your raw DNA file. We run the same fit test as our free Report Finder, for Italia only, and show you your verdict, your regional core and your 3 closest communities before you spend anything.

Click or drop your raw DNA file here 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FTDNA, LivingDNA or a chip VCF (Genotek, Atlas): .txt, .csv, .vcf, .zip or .gz

A raw file takes 1 to 3 minutes: we first estimate your G25 coordinates from it.

🔒 Your file is processed for this check only and immediately deleted.

⚠️ Designed for people with roots in mainland Italy (including Italian families abroad). If you are mostly of other ancestry, the models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor.

Get your Italia report

Select your community above, then confirm your email. We send you a secure link to upload your DNA (raw file or G25 coordinates) and generate your personalised report.

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📖 What is raw DNA & G25?

Explore these populations in our free Population Genetics Atlas

No DNA file needed. Each free page shows a population's ancient make-up, its closest modern and ancient neighbours, and ancient DNA from the same country when we have some.

See the Southern Europe section of the atlas Browse the full atlas (335 populations)

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Italia report for?

It is built for people with roots in mainland Italy: the Aosta Valley, Piedmont and Liguria, Lombardy, the North-East, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Umbria and the Marche, Abruzzo and Molise, Campania, Apulia, Calabria and Basilicata, across 12 communities, with Sicily as a closest reference. Families of Italian descent in the Americas, Australia and elsewhere can use it too. For other ancestry the Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Does it tell me how Etruscan, Roman or Greek I am?

No, and no honest test can. "Etruscan", "Latin", "Greek" and "Lombard" are language and culture labels, not genetic ones, and the Etruscans, Latins and Picenes sit too close to each other in G25 to be told apart. Imperial Rome was also a cosmopolitan city, so a "Roman" reference is the people actually buried there, many of eastern Mediterranean ancestry. The report shows which period populations of Italy you resemble, and says plainly where the data cannot go further.

Can it detect Greek, Norman or Arab ancestry in southern Italy?

It measures your resemblance to Greek colonists, Byzantine Greeks, the Normans (through a Norse proxy) and Muslim Sicily, used as outside proxies in their own periods. Southern Italians carry more eastern Mediterranean ancestry than northern Italians, but ancient DNA shows it built up over many centuries (Bronze Age contacts, Greek colonisation, Imperial Rome, Byzantine rule), while the Norman and Arab rulers left a modest genetic mark. A share is a resemblance compatible with that history, never proof of a particular ancestor.

My family is from Sicily or Sardinia. Is my island covered?

Sicily is included as a closest reference, so a Sicilian profile is recognised, but the islands are told in depth by our Thalassa report (Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Cyprus, Crete), which models their own layers: Sicani and Nuragic peoples, Phoenicians, Greeks, Arabs and Normans. If one side of your family is from the mainland and the other from Sicily, Italia reads the mainland part best.

How precise is the community match?

Neighbouring Italian communities are genetically close to each other (each about 0.006 to 0.020 from its nearest neighbour, the southern ones closest of all), so the closest community is a closest reference and not a proven origin or a provincial call. When two or more communities are tied, the report says so.

Not sure it fits me. Can I check first?

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

Do I need to have taken a DNA test already?

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

How much does it cost and what do I get?

€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, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French or German.

A DNA report for Italian ancestry

Italia is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for people with roots in mainland Italy. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, pick your community, and we model your genome against the ancient regional core plus non-regional outside admixture, era by era, from the first hunters to the Middle Ages.

Whether your family is Piedmontese, Lombard or Venetian, Emilian or Tuscan, from Rome, Abruzzo or Naples, Apulian, Lucanian or Calabrian, Italia models the genetic layers of your region's history, from the first farmers and the Iceman's Alps to the Etruscans, the Italic peoples and Magna Graecia, Imperial Rome, the Lombards and the medieval communes and kingdoms.

The report uses the Global25 (G25) system developed by geneticist Davidski, placing your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space alongside ancient and modern reference populations built from published ancient-DNA studies.

👁 Sample reports

See three real Italia reports

Full example reports, flip through every page: cover, regional core, the seven periods, closest communities and the AI narrative.

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🇮🇹 Northeast Italian sample

A Northeast Italian profile: Polada and the Terramare, the Iron Age of the Po valley, the Late Roman north and early medieval Italy, and the closest communities of the North.

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🇮🇹 Tuscan sample

A Tuscan profile: from the first farmers and the Bronze Age to the Etruscans, Imperial Rome and medieval Tuscany, with its closest community references.

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🇮🇹 Calabrian sample

A Calabrian profile: the Apennine Bronze Age, the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, Imperial Rome and the medieval South, read honestly against its southern neighbours.