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So, you are saying we are Goths?As I have already said, I don't know that for sure, it could've been Slavicized in Ukraine as well.
But, what makes me think that it was Slavicized on Balkans is that it is clearly evident I2a1b is dominant in Dinaric mountains (Herzegovina, Montenegro, western Serbia, good deal of Bosnian and Croatian mountains), while R1a is more dominant in plain, fertile lands of Yugoslavia (northern (especially NW) Croatia, Krajina Serbs, Podrinje, northern Bosnia, etc.) When we consider this geographical distribution of these two haplogroups, it makes no sense to me that they would be so differently distributed if they came within the same Slavic migration, and it is even more weird that Slavs (as heavily agricultural) would settle in rocky Dinaric mountains. It is kinda evident that R1a pushed I2a1b to the mountains.
Of course, this is just my theory. Carriers of I2a1b (most probably East Germanic tribes, considering where I2a1b "Dinaric" originates from) could've got Slavicized in Ukraine as well. Many even suggest they were Slavicized during Slavic ethnogenesis, but that is very wrong, for if that was the case, it would be evenly distributed among all Slavs.
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