PCA on Bulgarians and other Bulgarian-originating(or not) peoples

[djipon]

This PCA is based on my personal collection of coordinates. It covers Bulgarians, North Macedonians, Pomaks (Bulgarian Muslims) which are separated for clarification purposes to ones from Bulgaria and Greece; Gagauz, Bulgarian Turks, Aromanians, and Northern Greeks.

It is made to observe and comment on, not to enrage someone!


https://i.postimg.cc/SKDm097x/image.png

Can we safely say, disregarding modern politics, borders and so on, that these all, except Bulgarian Turks maybe, fall under the same people?

What do you think?

[Lemurian]

Interesting and not too unexpected. Agreed for most of these people, but aside from the B. Turks, the North Greeks and Aromanians are also sort of outliers, and I wouldn't characterize them as "Bulgarian" peoples exactly. However, they certainly share lots of Thracian ancestry in common. Going deeper, SE Europe and particularly the East Balkans generally have similar levels of primarily Neolithic Farmer, some IE steppe, and some minor Caucasus components, along with later additions.

[Nurzat]

if you add to the PCA the Gagauz people of Rep. of Moldova, the southernmost Moldovans in the Rep. of Moldova and Wallachians in Romania they'd largely overlap that as well I think

[djipon]

if you add to the PCA the Gagauz people of Rep. of Moldova, the southernmost Moldovans in the Rep. of Moldova and Wallachians in Romania they'd largely overlap that as well I think

I've only used coordinates that I collected... If you have such coordinates and are willing to provide them - feel free to DM me!