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Deadlic's avatar

But is Kosovo and Bosnia Serbian?

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Bosniaks are Muslim Serbs. Kosovars are Albanian. There are Serbs in Kosovo doe.

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Oranon's avatar

kosovo used to be serbian , there’s a chance that skanderberg himself was half serbian , bosnia is more croat but they’ve been kinda weird for a while i mean they had their own christian sect

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Skanderbeg was Italian heheh

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Crusader Bashir's avatar

No he was British

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Shade of Achilles's avatar

Fascinating

Counter-intuitively higher Turkic admixture in parts of Aegean Turkey maybe has two sources: first 'local' Yoruks/other Turkmen groups and then transplantation from elsewhere (I'm pulling this out of my arse but could even have been Western Thrace or Thessaly) after population exchange. Thus formerly least Turkic parts of Asia Minor became most Turkic after 1923. Accident? I doubt it. Kemalist folk genomics spot-on.

Last Romanian genetic survey wen? Whom did it test? I suspect non-trivial Gypsy admixture since at least 1980s owing to forced co-habitation and social levelling, esp in last 20 years. It's visible everywhere.

Also, according to eminent based Aromanian historian Neagu Djuvara, Romanian boyars were Cumans (seems plausible but very hard to test now).

I will soon compoase an article on muh stack elaborating on grave calumnies in last two paragraphs.

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Yeah, ive heard people suggest the Yoruk hypothesis before. It seems likely to me but it’s hard to fully distinguish Yoruks and Turkmens. However I don’t think “Balkan Transplant” led to the high central Asian as we have balkan Turk DNA and they do have central Asian but not as much as west Anatolian Turks

Gypsies only make up like 3% of Romanian population so even if Gypsies fully mixed into Romania it would not leave a very sizeable dent, but pretty sure Romanian datasets on G25 and probably also anything for ADMIXTOOLS are done within the past 20 years.

Cumans were a diverse group, some were white featured. But Romanians seem to just be Slavs who speak a Romance language in my opinion

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

If it is Wallachophobic I might get... well.. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry!

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Shade of Achilles's avatar

Indeed I do not approve of the fraud Eli Wallach.

Of the Romanians I am fond enough to have married one.

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Shade of Achilles's avatar

oh fuq I was thinking of the fraud Elie *Wiesel*. Eli Wallach was a fine actor of unimpeachable honesty (I guess). Sorry Eli if you're reading!

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