Pelasgians

The Pelasgians were the oldest if not the aboriginal inhabitants of Greece.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

They had very little respect for other people's rights, and they killed the natives of the Greek peninsula (who were called the Pelasgians) and stole their farms and took their cattle and made their wives and daughters slaves and wrote endless songs praising the courage of the clan of the Achæans, who had led the Hellenic advance-guard into the mountains of Thessaly and the Peloponnesus.

The Story of Mankind 1921

The Pelasgians were a very ancient race, of whom only traces existed in Greece in historic times.

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

Sicelus migrated from Rome southward to the Pelasgians, that is, the

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

Whether the Etruscans were the same people whom the Greeks called Pelasgians, as many investigators now hold: whether the earliest Roman city was in any true sense an Etruscan one: these are questions on the answers to which it is not as yet safe to build further hypotheses.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

On the Trojan as well as on the Greek side were people called Pelasgians, who seem to have lived on both shores of the sea.

Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities Andrew Lang 1878

From all this it appears that the Pelasgians were the ancient occupants of nearly all Greece; that they were probably of the same stock as their

Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

Ikaria has been inhabited since at least 7000 B.C. when it was inhabited by the Neolithic pre-hellenic people that Greeks called Pelasgians.

The Island of Icaria | ultraorange.net 2007

Some Basque thinkers use the term Euzko to name their people and those who are related to them or have the same origin from their DNA and cultural ties, such as the Etruscans, Scots, Scandinavians, Celts, Irish, Welsh, Gauls, Thracians, and Pelasgians

Review: The Oldest Europeans 2006

There is also a small Chalcidian element; but the greater number are Tyrrheno-Pelasgians once settled in Lemnos and

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005