west Asian is Turkish?
west Asian is Turkish?
I am assuming what Tutkun meant is the pre-Turk-etnonym for Western Anatolians.
Maybe modern western-Anatolia Turks are more closely related to their ancient geographical predecessors than many would have you believe.
I mean from a Historical prism, considering Ancient Greece, Rome, and Byzantium, that would only make sense.
What surprises me most is the high Levantine, North African, Iberian, South Italian, Jewish proximity showing all over the Balkans.
That I was not aware of.
From the Albanian guy you linked:
"# Population (source) Distance
1 Greek_Thessaly 4.51
2 Tuscan 8.01
3 Bulgarian 8.29
4 Italian_Abruzzo 8.59
5 Romanian 9.68
6 West_Sicilian 9.81
7 Central_Greek 9.97
8 North_Italian 11.16
9 East_Sicilian 11.27
10 Ashkenazi 13.47
11 South_Italian 13.53
12 Serbian 13.65
13 Portuguese 19.05
14 Italian_Jewish 19.16
15 Sephardic_Jewish 19.44
16 Spanish_Extremadura 19.47
17 Algerian_Jewish 19.58
18 Moldavian 20.19
19 Spanish_Galicia 20.21
20 Spanish_Murcia 20.45"
Iron Age Bulgaria: https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/37958-Iron-Age-Balkan-DNA-on-GEDmatch?p=568028#post568028
"Single Population Sharing:
# Population (source) Distance
1 Tuscan 11.98
2 South_Italian 12.54
3 West_Sicilian 12.55
4 East_Sicilian 12.78
5 Central_Greek 13.11
6 Italian_Abruzzo 13.68
7 Greek_Thessaly 13.77
8 Italian_Jewish 14.15
9 Algerian_Jewish 15.17
10 Ashkenazi 15.36
11 North_Italian 15.49
12 Greek 15.57
13 Sephardic_Jewish 16.87
14 Libyan_Jewish 19.2
15 Tunisian_Jewish 20.2
16 Portuguese 21.5
17 Bulgarian 21.51
18 Spanish_Extremadura 21.65
19 Spanish_Galicia 21.91
20 Spanish_Andalucia 22.12"
Maybe we can infer this population mixture took place pre-Christian era. And if that is the case(?), the question is how long before, and where did these populations meet(?). We are certainly seeing a high degree of "Globalization" so to speak, spanning from West Europe, All the way to West Asia, and Northern Africa.
I wonder how far early this Ashkenazi / Sheparic influence goes? Certainly pre-Christ, or rather pre-Christianity (3-4th Century). But also considering the similarities with Iberia and even the NW Galicia populations, I suspect it could be much earlier.
This post is with good intentions, so I hope I don't rustle any feathers as usual.
For all I know this is just a coincidence, and I do not know what I am talking about.
Very Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Would East_German represent Prussian?; Or Saxon peoples?
Or is Prussian calculated as Baltic?
By my estimates, if you place it in Y-dna terms, East Med of K13, it's the equivalent of Majority J(probably mainly J2) with minority old R1b (or even maybe R1a too- in the place or supplementary to R1b- look Iranian E.Med) and some E lineages.East Med is not levantine it's a proxy for East Aegean and/or Cypriot
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