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As informed people probably know, the modern Croatian nation was made by various ethnic elements, while real chakavian Croats are in the minority.
It is interesting that the founder of Croatian ethnography Antun Radić wrote 1903 that "Croats" from some parts of northern Croatia (Zagreb, Križevci, Sisak, Požega) were actually croatized Slovenians.
Excerpt from his book (in Croatian):
"U staro vrijeme, i još pred 300 do 400 godina nije oko Zagreba, Križevaca, Siska, Požege itd. uopće u Hrvatskoj s druge strane gore Velebita do mora, u cijeloj toj zemlji NIJE BILO NI JEDNOG HRVATA: Hrvati su bili preko Velebita, bliže moru, a oko Zagreba itd. pa na zapad sve preko Ljubljane i dalje dolje uza Savu sve su to bili Slovinci ili Slovenci. (ANTUN RADIĆ, "Dom" od 3.12.1903.)"
Slovenian author Boris Golec wrote the book "Nedovršena kroatizacija Slovenaca. (translation : "Unfinished croatiasation of Slovenians")
https://books.google.rs/books?id=92S...page&q&f=false
Genetics confirms his statements.
Study "Croatian national reference y-STRs haplotype database. Molecular biology reports 2012."
A total of 1,100 samples from five regions of Croatia were included in the analysis.
Five region of Croatia: Northern Croatia, Central Croatia, Eastern Croatian, Western Croatia, Southern Croatia.
Results:
According to this, Croats from northern Croatia have mostly I2 dinaric north (Slovenians also have I2 dinaric north), while Croats from the rest of Croatia have mostly I2 dinaric south.
Study "Standing at the gateway to Europe--the genetic structure of Western balkan populations based on autosomal and haploid markers."
Croatian samples were picked up in Zagreb (northern Croatia).
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