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Ihype02: Charles V recruited around 200 galleys full of Albanians to fight the Turks from this region. They ended up in Italy. I wish I can post maps of Albanian communities in the 15th vs. 19th centuries, but I’m too new a member. And yes, Byzantines settled them, and later Turks settled...

Come and See, Classic Soviet film about Operation Barbarossa.

Ah, ok. I could go along with that, at least until we find more data. I am EV-13 myself and half Peloponnesian. I assumed I might have Arvanite ancestry for years, but I have no matches with Albania or Kosovo or anywhere in the Balkans for that matter, but a lot of with Sicily, South Italy...

That's possible, but why isn't there any similar proportion of j2b in the Peloponnesus? I mean, I don't know if I have ever seen any. As opposed to Greek Epirus.

Jives with the Kingdom of Vlachs and Bulgarians in North and Central Greece suddenly appearing in the early Middle Ages (10th century). I don't buy the "Vlachs are indigenous Macedonians/Greeks" line, at least not in the majority. The Byzantines were even calling these people Dacians, in part...

Yeah, I just mean the relative paucity in Albanian proto-slavic ydna markers vs. apparent autosomal evidence. If this is correct, then it looks way female unbalanced. Even the evidence of Greek/Slavic intermingling looks Slavic-Northern female heavy. Why do you think Proto-Albanians were...

Been out of this for awhile. Doesn't this pretty much jive with the 20~ some percent of Greece with R1a1 and I2a1b ydna? Only big news is that Albanians took South slav wives in disproportionate numbers for their harems.