R1b1 in Corsica and the Balearics

[MarianP]

Were a good number Celts put on Corsica and the Balearic Islands as slaves on plantations in the Middle Ages by the Genoa Republic? Would this account for high Rib1 DNA on these islands? What subclade(s) of R1b1 are on these islands?
MarianP

 

[Brennos]

Were a good number Celts put on Corsica and the Balearic Islands as slaves on plantations in the Middle Ages by the Genoa Republic? Would this account for high Rib1 DNA on these islands? What subclade(s) of R1b1 are on these islands? MarianP

Why not Genoeses themselves immigrated in those islands?

 

[Angela]

Why not Genoeses themselves immigrated in those islands?

Indeed. Genovesi and Toscani.

Corsica was a possession of the Republic of Genova for five centuries, and there has also been continued migration into Corsica from nearby Toscana. The most famous example of this migration from the mainland is "la famiglia Buonaparte". Napoleon's mother's family was descended from immigrants who came from Liguria and his father's from an area on the Toscana/Liguria border. (about a kilometer, as the crow flies, from where I was born)

Corsican is very close to Tuscan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsican_language

Back further in time there were the Romans, who colonized the island extensively, and before that the Ligures. Some have speculated the Ligures moved into Italy (and Corsica) as part of the Urnfield expansions, and might have carried U-152.

Some data on distributions can be found here:
http://www.worldfamilies.net/forum/index.php?topic=10721.0;wap2

I don't know if there is anything more current.

 

[Pax Augusta]

Indeed. Genovesi and Toscani.

Corsica was a possession of the Republic of Genova for five centuries, and there has also been continued migration into Corsica from nearby Toscana. The most famous example of this migration from the mainland is "la famiglia Buonaparte". Napoleon's mother's family was descended from immigrants who came from Liguria and his father's from an area on the Toscana/Liguria border. (about a kilometer, as the crow flies, from where I was born)

Corsican is very close to Tuscan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsican_language

Back further in time there were the Romans, who colonized the island extensively, and before that the Ligures. Some have speculated the Ligures moved into Italy (and Corsica) as part of the Urnfield expansions, and might have carried U-152.

Some data on distributions can be found here:
http://www.worldfamilies.net/forum/index.php?topic=10721.0;wap2

I don't know if there is anything more current.

Before the Republic of Genova Corsica was a possession of the Republic of Pisa (Tuscany). Today the Archbishop of Pisa still has the title of Primate of Corsica and Sardinia given by Pope Urban II in 1092. There were many migrations from Tuscany, Liguria (and other parts of Italy, I think from Sardinia as well) to Corsica, as many Corsicans moved to Italy. Being that the population of Corsica is very small compared to an Italian region, a founder effect can't be ruled out.