Recent content by eastara

Vyazov is not Bulgarian, in fact he claims himself to be a Russified Ukrainian, who currently works in Czechia, but has also connections to US labs.

That's correct, for example modern Bulgarians also have Anatolian and other non-European admixture, which happened in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times. However they have more East and West European influence from Early Medieval times. The Balkans were to a large extend depopulated afer...

There are some leaks from the new study with old bones from Bulgaria. It turned out practically all remains from Philippopolis from the Roman and Byzantine era are 100% Anatolians and Levantines. There was a large presence of haplogroup L.

All Continental Greeks are heavily admixed with Albanians and Slavs and just for that reason they look more European. Those who lived before the Middle Ages along the coastal regions of the Balkans and in the bigger cities had a big Anatolian admixture, unless purely Anatolian. This happened in...

The exhibition with the new found gold treasures has just been opened in the Archaeological museum, Sofia. However this is not exactly Classic Thracian treasure, but rather Hellenistic from 2nd c. BC. https://naim.bg/bg/content/news/600/857/1473/

Recent DNA test of the Gagauz people proved that the old theory they are descendantas of Cumans and other Turcic people from the steppe is not correct. They are purely Balkan population with no East Asian whatsever, which is typical for the Turcic origin. Their language is in fact some old...

Of course, the haplogroup is only a small part of your ancestry. I know a few Bulgarians with the Roma/Gypsy H1a, who have no such connection autosomally. This is because it entered their ancestry a long time ago and autosomally it has been diluted to no detection. However, even a small Roma...

In Bulgaria "gajal" is used also for the Turkish Roma/Gypsies, especially in North East Bulgaria. Your haplogroups H1a proves it as it is one of the Roma/Gypsies "founder lineages" they brought from India. You can order the Big Y test at FamilyTreeDNA to confirm it is really the Roma branch...

I think one of the E's is under the African M2

According to the new study the Yamnaya people on the Balkans who had farmers admixture did not get it locally but rather from the Tripolye culture. Around that time (3500BC) the old Eneolithic cultures were extinct with obvious population hiatus of nearly 1000 years.

Although pure Yamnaya people are found on the Balkans during the Early Bronze age, for some reason their descendants did not survive. There was a new population hiatus around 2400BC and after that the influence is from 2 different direction. The South -Thrace, Macedonia/Albania were in the...

They are already on TheYTree: https://www.theytree.com/portal/index/samples?keyword=Stable%20population%20structure%20in%20Europe%20since%20the%20Iron%20Age

The very rare on the Balkans M26/L148 among Gorani is interesting and may have also Roman origin. I see on the YFULL tree a Serbian from Kosovo and there is also a Bulgarian Z113 (tested with SNP pack), who claims origin from Bossilegrad area. https://www.yfull.com/tree/I-Z113/

My impression is that the Serbian project Poreklo does not deny the Albanian origin of some Serbian haplogroups. This is supported by traditional genealogy, as the Serbs also lived in tribes and the origin is remembered. However I see a strong resistance by some Bulgarians to admit Albanian and...

I don't think Romaniotes in Greece are a pure isolated group. They have been diluted by the Sephardis, coming from Spain. By the way, R1b-DF27 is no way Slavic, but rather Iberian haplogroup. It came with the Sephardis, who have incorporated some of the locals. Thessaloniki and Istanbul were...