Nobody1
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I hope I'm not being too pedantic, but I think you can go further; that entire group of emperors until Commodus (192 A.D.), with the possible exception of Antoninus Pius, were of Italic origin, and most were connected with that same colony in Spain.
Thats true;
Although the proper line of Italic Emperors was ended with Vespasian [Flavian dynasty]
Trajan and Hadrian essentially being Italics from the abroad Veteran colony ITALICA;
Mark Aurel [-Commodus] origins was from Colonia Claritas Iulia Ucubi in Baetica
- a colony founded by Caesar;
It's only with the disastrous third century that you get the Balkans emperors. Although one wonders how different they would have been...perhaps in terms of y dna...not all that U-152, but in terms of autosomal, over all genetic similarity? That paper cited by Dienekes maintained that a dna analysis of a Balkan from the Iron Age was "Otzi like".
I have seen some figures concerning Neolithic admixture in modern populations;
but none from the Balkans - would be interesting;