The initial habitation of the Caphtorim seems to have been the Peloponnese and Crete. Their Y-DNA Haplogroup E-V13 "Cabeiri" and "Vulcan" branches in Pelasgia, the name of the area occupied by the Kaftorite Nation, became identified as Pelasgians although they were not actually patrilineal sons of giant Inachus son of Oceanus.
The Greco-Romans played an important role in the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. The Kaftorites in Eastern Europe were Kaftorite nations included the Picts and their East European ancestral Agathyrsi/Akatziroi children of Agathyrsus the oldest son of Hercules (Heracles) and Echidna. Through Dardanus they established themselves over the Philistim of Troy, and Caria through Manes. In western Europe they were the Pictish Brits claiming descent from Lucius Junius Brutus a descendant of Assaracus. In Italy they were the Romans claiming descent from Mars. In Egypt they were the Hyksos claiming descent from Epaphus/Apis/Apep. In the Balkans the Macedonians claimed descent from Vulcan.
A Vulcan legion of Greco-Romans were an inspiration to certain descendants of the [[פלשתים|Asena/Achamenids of Perseus]] who called themselves Balkhan-Hephthalites.
