No they were not. They may have had hint of it, but Thracians were by anthropological material mostly Mediterranean and very different to some of their neighbors. What some accounts say is secondary to the anthropological material examined. And ***mentation is selection driven and can change.
I2a2 is a Paleo-Euopean hg, most of its clades are Germanic and Paleobalkan clades, very few, are Luwian-Anatolian. R1b has nothing to do with Thracians at all, and all Romanian/Bulgarian R1a is non-Thracian, thus far.
R-M269 is 6500 years old also, you seem to be lumping all R1b into one, you clearly haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
Thracian Bessoi kept their language until 5th century AD and according to archeological evidence Bessi survived the Slavic incursion in Serbian/Bulgarian border area. There is no firm archeological-linguistic evidence of any Illyrians surviving.
Romans went through the Illyrians like they were nothing. Illyrians posed very little threat to the Romans.
Those were V13 7000 years ago same as G2a carriers for the most part, but although similar in many respects they were not the same as the BA/IA population. Of course no Thracians and any Indoeuropeans were originally V13, or any other non-Steppe hg. Original Thracians were a R-Z280 clade but spreaders of the language were mostly V13.
Illyrians had more blue/green-eyed people than IA Thracians
Thracian EIA sample is alot more to the Southeast than the Illyrian EIA/LBA sample. Nuff said.
Absolute nonsense on all accounts once again. There is zero written evidence of illyrian language or having blue eyes. Thracians were always described as blue eyed redheads i will take written accounts over your speculative nonsense. How can you completely deny thracians being r1b and r1a without evidence? As for illyrians being nothing to romans, no one was - they made little work of the british and changed the whole landscape of britain, they still have roman roads today dont forget.
Romans changed the language of thracians into latin as proven today by romanians, it is a latin language. During the reign of Domitian the Dacians even wiped out a Roman legion. This focused Rome on revenge and launched the Dacian Wars of 101–02 AD and 105–06. It is estimated emperor Trajan used upwards of 200,000 troops. Basically, this wasn’t just about conquest, but blatant genocide.
According to some texts such as -
Scholia in Lucianum: Icaromenippos; 24/16 (page 104):
“The Getae, a barbarian and vigorous people who rising against the Romans and humiliating them such as to compel them to pay a tribute, were later, at the time of king Decebal, destroyed by Trajan in such a way that their entire people was reduced to forty men as Kriton tells in the Getica.”
Kriton took part in the campaigns of Trajan. He was an eyewitness how romans eradicated dacians.
This is kinda disgusting but -
The Roman people hailed Trajan's triumph in Dacia with the longest and most expensive celebration in their history, financed by a part of the gold taken from the Dacians.[189] For his triumph, Trajan gave a 123-day festival (ludi) of celebration, in which approximately 11,000 animals were slaughtered and 11,000 gladiators fought in combats. This surpassed Emperor Titus's celebration in AD 70, when a 100-day festival included 3,000 gladiators and 5,000 to 9,000 wild animals.
Then the now romanians managed to hold onto that language from invading the south slavs but half of their y dna is now south slavic and the other southern thracians (bulgarians) lost both their language and y dna to south slavs.
Thracian language and dna was almost wiped out in eastern europe whereas in the west balkans there is plenty of ancient y dna that has nothing to do with south slavs. In west balkans you find albanian language and greek - both have nothing to do with south slavs and albanian has nothing to do with latin language tree
The romans likely used illyrians in their army early on and spread dna across europe including in east europe where the thracians were but we will only find proof with ancient dna