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Patzinaks (Pechenegs) a semi-nomadic people of the Central Asian steppes speaking a Turkic language.

Paleolithic Old Stone Age, ended 9000 BC

Palermo Stone Chronicle written during the fifth dynasty ( 2650 BC)

Peloponnese Large island below Greece, include Sparta, Arcadia, Messenia, Laconia, Agos, Olympia

Persia Now parts of Iran and Afghanistan. Persians called their language Aryan. Persians showed up around 1000 BC from lands north of the Caspian Sea. Persian empire of the 500's BC ended by the expansion of Alexander the Great, then Arabs took it in 600's AD

Philistines Aegeans who settled on the Palestine coast. Non-Semitic, controlled the SW coast called Philistia. Now non-Jews in Israel.

Phocians Branch of the Dorians

Phoenicians People settling on the coasts of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, a branch of the Canaanites. Early cities were Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, Byblos, Symira, Arwad, Ugarit. Canaan meant land of purple, Greek's word for red purple was phoinix. Phoenicians are interchangable with the Canannites (before Israelites came to Canaan) and are also known as Sidonians as the capital was Sidon. Language was Semitic close to Hebrew. Great sailors, explorers, traders, learning most of their manufacturing from the Egyptians. Lived in independent cities never united into one state. Now Syria

Phrygians Aegeans that migrated to Anatolia from Thrace 1200 BC, Indo-European, capital was Gordion. The Kingdom of Phrygia circa 700 BC had its capital at Gordion, Asia Minor/Anatolia/Turkey. It's traditional kings were Midas and Gordius. They heavily influenced the Asiatic Greeks, were destroyed by the Cimmarians invading from south Russia. the Kingdom of Lydia replaced it.
Semites - from the desert, later called Akkadians, their dialect is called Akkadian. The Semitic language broke out to two dialects: Assyrian and Babylonian.

Picts Original Scots in Scotland. Roman word for the people in Caledonia (Scotland) and northern Britain because they covered themselves with pictures/paintings. Actually and set of older Celtic Irish settlers from the third century BC, not to be confused with the Belgic tribes.
First historical reference to them was in 297 in a speech by a Roman orator.
They disappeared as a race about 900.

Powys Cornovii and Decangii on eastern and north eastern Wales. The founder was Cadell Catellus, possibly a slave of King Benli who offered shelter to Saint Germanus from a storm after the king denied it. When Benli's castle burnt, struck by lightning in the storm, Germanus appointed Cadell king.

Provence It was known in ancient times as part of Narbonensis, inhabited by Ligurians and later Celts. Province of the Roman Empire 100BC, now a region of southeastern France

Prussia Now north east Poland

Rhineland West Germany, lands surrounding both sides of the Rhine

Romans Greek or Latins twins, Romulus and Remus, from Troy (legend) kicked out and formed Rome on April 21, 753 BC

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Patzinaks		(Pechenegs) a semi-nomadic people of the Central Asian steppes speaking a Turkic language.
Paleolithic		Old Stone Age, ended 9000 BC
Palermo Stone		Chronicle written during the fifth dynasty ( 2650 BC)
Peloponnese		Large island below Greece, include Sparta, Arcadia, Messenia, Laconia, Agos, Olympia
Persia		Now parts of Iran and Afghanistan. Persians called their language Aryan. Persians showed up around 1000 BC from lands north of the Caspian Sea. Persian empire of the 500's BC ended by the expansion of Alexander the Great, then Arabs took it in 600's AD
Philistines		Aegeans who settled on the Palestine coast. Non-Semitic, controlled the SW coast called Philistia. Now non-Jews in Israel.
Phocians		Branch of the Dorians
Phoenicians		People settling on the coasts of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, a branch of the Canaanites. Early cities were Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, Byblos, Symira, Arwad, Ugarit. Canaan meant land of purple, Greek's word for red purple was phoinix. Phoenicians are interchangable with the Canannites (before Israelites came to Canaan) and are also known as Sidonians as the capital was Sidon. Language was Semitic close to Hebrew. Great sailors, explorers, traders, learning most of their manufacturing from the Egyptians. Lived in independent cities never united into one state. Now Syria
Phrygians		Aegeans that migrated to Anatolia from Thrace 1200 BC, Indo-European, capital was Gordion. The Kingdom of Phrygia circa 700 BC had its capital at Gordion, Asia Minor/Anatolia/Turkey. It's traditional kings were Midas and Gordius. They heavily influenced the Asiatic Greeks, were destroyed by the Cimmarians invading from south Russia. the Kingdom of Lydia replaced it. Semites - from the desert, later called Akkadians, their dialect is called Akkadian. The Semitic language broke out to two dialects: Assyrian and Babylonian.
Picts		Original Scots in Scotland. Roman word for the people in Caledonia (Scotland) and northern Britain because they covered themselves with pictures/paintings. Actually and set of older Celtic Irish settlers from the third century BC, not to be confused with the Belgic tribes. First historical reference to them was in 297 in a speech by a Roman orator. They disappeared as a race about 900.
Powys		Cornovii and Decangii on eastern and north eastern Wales. The founder was Cadell Catellus, possibly a slave of King Benli who offered shelter to Saint Germanus from a storm after the king denied it. When Benli's castle burnt, struck by lightning in the storm, Germanus appointed Cadell king.
Provence		It was known in ancient times as part of Narbonensis, inhabited by Ligurians and later Celts. Province of the Roman Empire 100BC, now a region of southeastern France
Prussia		Now north east Poland
Rhineland		West Germany, lands surrounding both sides of the Rhine
Romans		Greek or Latins twins, Romulus and Remus, from Troy (legend) kicked out and formed Rome on April 21, 753 BC