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The presence of Illyrians in Greek sources was mentioned in "Iliad" of Homer 1800 years bc. But that means they did not come there the day they were mentioned. They could have been there thousand of years before they were mentioned. In the same source you hear about Thracian's as well.
But again the language of Thracian is described as Thraco-Illyrian or Daco -Thracian. The linguists detect connections between these languages which means The Dacs, the Illyrians and Thracians were in a distant past the same people. Since the Bulgarians seat in Thracian homeland its not correct to say that racially Thracian's looked somehow similar like Bulgarians or Romanians since both are heavily mixed. Bulgarians have the Turkic Bulgar layer ans the Slavic one, and the Romanians have Slavic and Roman layer.(Romans deported thousand of Rome's women for reasons that I am not mentioning here since might look insulting.). So the only people that are less mixed and have consistently live in the area are Kosovans that's why I suggested that they are the close we can get to the Thracian's in racial terms.
If Kosovars are the original people of the Balkans, the strongest candidate for IE Thracians would be R1b, not J2b , J2a, or even E-V13. These are basically Middle Eastern people who have nothing to do with the steppes. It can't go both ways
N | E-M78* | E-V13 | E-M81 | E-M123 | J2b | I1 | I2a2 | R1b | R1a | P |
114 | 1.75% | 43.85% | 0.90% | 0.90% | 16.70% | 5.31% | 2.65% | 21.10% | 4.42% | 1.77% |
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