A focused population profile of Sicilians from Trapani, their western Sicilian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Sicilians from Trapani come from western Sicily, a Mediterranean region facing the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Strait of Sicily, and North Africa. Trapani's history includes Elymian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, Swabian, Aragonese, Spanish, and modern Italian layers.
Italian is the national language, while Sicilian is widely used in regional speech and cultural life. Western Sicily has its own local history, so Trapani should be treated as a regional Sicilian profile rather than a single stand-in for all Sicily.
As a genetic reference, Sicilian Trapani is useful for comparison with Sicilian west/east references, Maltese, Campanian, Apulian, Basilicata, Jewish Mediterranean references, Greek island references, and broader central/eastern Mediterranean populations.
In the World Genetics modern G25 table, Sicilian Trapani is closest to Sicilian Syracuse, Sicilian West, Italian Basilicata Lucanian, Ashkenazi Jew Romania, Italian Campania Campanian, Maltese, Greek Cyclades Andros, Italian Apulia Apulian, Italian Abruzzo Abruzzese, and Sicilian Catania. The nearest matches place Trapani inside a Sicilian and southern Italian/Mediterranean cluster, with Maltese and Greek island context also visible.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Sicilian Trapani is best interpreted as a western Sicilian Mediterranean profile, close to other Sicilian, southern Italian, Maltese, and Greek island references.
The heatmap should emphasize western Sicily, the rest of Sicily, Malta, southern Italy, and nearby central/eastern Mediterranean reference zones.
Yes. Sicilian Syracuse, Sicilian West, and Sicilian Catania appear among the closest matches.
Maltese appears among the close matches to Sicilian Trapani in this comparison.
Sicily sits in a central Mediterranean genetic space where southern Italian, Greek island, Maltese, and some eastern Mediterranean Jewish references can overlap.
