that model would still have 25% "Balkan" because Serbs in G25 are roughly 50% "Balkan", i believe.
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Early Slavs were originally a very small group, and they were all genetically very similar to each other. They were like Belorusians, some groups maybe more similar to north Ukrainians, east Poles, or West Russians. but still 95% similar to each other. i'll just call it "Belarusian-like" genetics for simplicity's sake.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._centuries.png
a sample from near Moscow from 1200 ad was still 90% early Slavic, with very little local Finnic admixture.
Sorbs came to Germany around 550 AD, and brought Belarusian-like genetics. Then, around 620 AD, a part of them split and migrated to the Balkans, and also brought Belarusian-like genetics to the Balkans. They didn't have enough time to pick up any other admixture.
Those other tribes, which came to the Balkans through modern day Moldova and Romania, also brought Belarusian-like genetics with them.
Austrians, Czech, South Polish, and this man i posted, are Slavs + Celts + Germans, and not much else. Hungarians and Croats(north Croats in this case) are also Slavs + Celts + Germans, and they also have some Paleo-Balkan influence on top of that, but still pretty similar to Czechs and South Polish. they are all together in a "Central European" cluster. that's why this Sorb is close to them.
https://i.imgur.com/2WlxkSE.png
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in the end, why complicate things this much? just take a look at the results i posted in the first post:
Mixed Mode Population Sharing:
# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 59.2% Ukrainian_Belgorod + 40.8% West_German @ 2.83
2 59.5% Southwest_Russian + 40.5% West_German @ 3.28
3 61.2% Ukrainian_Belgorod + 38.8% South_Dutch @ 3.31
the genetics of this man are very simple.
I'm not doubting that there was a "white serbia" nor "white croatia" during the Byzantine times; what I'm disputing is necessarily the notion that Serbs and Croats got their names from those places, rather than from an even earlier splitting off point somewhere eastern. When a tribe would have split, one would have gone west, and the other south. Then the Byzantine sources hear about the places that went "west", and then by virtue of them automatically assume that the Serbs and Croats right north of them derived from those that went west. That's the only thing that seems iffy to me, especially given that the west Sorbs had a bunch of other problems to deal with at the time, much bigger problems like the Franks.
And anyway, "Srbi" and "Hrvati" don't sound like slavic names to begin with, more like something Iranic or by extension Sarmatian, which would support the theory that they originally came from Slavicized Sarmatians.
Not all Croats have paleo-Balkan admixture though. "Greater Croatia" is made up of Dalmatia, Istra, Slavonia, Herzegovina, and Northwest Croatia. All of these subregions have more paleo-Balkan admixture, EXCEPT for Northwest Croatia, which is much more similar to west Slavs.
All I'm saying is that when given your theory, it's just as likely that "White Serbs" and "White Croats" got their namesake from a small coalition of "actual" Serbs and Croats from the south, as it is that your theory is likely. What I think though, is that neither of those theories are likelier than the theory that they split off from an eastern source.
Aren't Sorbs mostly R1a-L260? Idk their Z280 levels, however, they also practically lack I2a1b-Y3120. Y3120 & Z280 are more dominant in Balkan Serbs. L260 is near insignificant. Also, Whilst L1029 is also present, I think total M458 in Serbs is like 5 percent, whilst the rest is Z280.
Voight may be right that the tribe split from a more eastern positions and not directly from Sorbia. Otherwise it doesn't look like Sorbs left much of a mark in Serbs from a YDNA perspective.
Because White Croats base was always western Ukraine. Part moved to Czech Republic and southern Poland later on.
Porfirogenet mentions two different locations of white Croatia, one in Bohemia and one much further east, which was frequently plundered by Pechenegs and between Baltic and Black seas.
Only relevant archeological remains of White Croats are found in Ukraine and not in Czech Republic.
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Sedov considered them as Southeastern neighbours of Dulebes living in the Northern and Southern area of Eastern Prykarpattia, and along B. O. Tymoshchuk argued that Slavic Gords in Bukovina were abandoned by Croats. Many other scholars also located the Croats in the territory of Galicia, and such localization is supported by DAI according to which they were plundered by the Pechenegs which would not be possible if the Croats were located further in the West like the Czech Republic. Ukrainian archaeologist and historian Orest Korchinsky attribute to White Croatia several big Gords, including Revno, Stiljsko, Zhydachiv, Kotorin complex, Klyuchi, Stuponica, Krylos, Pidhorodyshche, Terebovlia, Ganachivka, Solonsko among others.
Please don't make me laugh, calling this butchered banana land ''Greater Croatia''. And Herzegovina belongs to another country.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...of_Croatia.png
Croatia at the height of its power, 1024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdo...%E2%80%931102)
there was probably a second White Serbia in Ukraine too, since it's mentioned that Hungarians passed through Serbia before coming to Pannonia.
A common match of me and the Sorb is a Rusyn with the surname "Boika". maybe it's connected with the alternate name of White Serbia "Boiki".
in the year 517 Slavs(Antae,Sclaveni) started invading Byzantium from the direction of modern day Romania. Serbs and Croats come around 100 later (yellow arrow)
https://i.imgur.com/qbfUa4r.jpg
i2a and r1a subclades which are found both in eastern and western Balkans are probably from these earlier Slavs.
"The Dacians (/ˈdeɪʃənz/; Latin: Daci; Greek: Δάκοι,[2] Δάοι,[2] Δάκαι[3]) were a Thracian[4][5][6] people who were the ancient inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea. This area includes mainly the present-day countries of Romania and Moldova, as well as parts of Ukraine,[7] Eastern Serbia, Northern Bulgaria, Slovakia,[8] Hungary and Southern Poland.[7] The Dacians spoke the Dacian language, a sub-group of Thracian, but were somewhat culturally influenced by the neighbouring Scythians and by the Celtic invaders of the 4th century BC."
Croatian branch of I2 mostly came from the Dacians. Some Iranic tribe arrived to Carpathians in the migration era. I guess this is "Horvat tribe" or whatever but to be specific they are branch of North Iranic people probably related with "Jassic" people or some other remnant nomadic population that also assimilated into various peoples of the Eurasian Steppe. They probably had female nomads with them, upon their arrival to Carpathian the Dacians assimilated bunch of Feiichys (manly behaving womans) and passed to their offspring Thracian Y-DNA I2. For example when I see western shifted Romanians picking up random "Croatia" region in 23andme but all the eastern shifted Romanians don't, I am confident in this connection
Haplogroup I2
Croatia (38%)
Possible place of origin: Eastern Europe (Balkans), possibly the Eastern Mediterranean
Croatian population 4.076 million, assume half are males 2.038 million, 38% of 2.038 million have I2 haplogroup, majority is PH908
"The Dacians (/ˈdeɪʃənz/; Latin: Daci; Greek: Δάκοι,[2] Δάοι,[2] Δάκαι[3]) were a Thracian[4][5][6] people who were the ancient inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea. This area includes mainly the present-day countries of Romania and Moldova, as well as parts of Ukraine,[7] Eastern Serbia, Northern Bulgaria, Slovakia,[8] Hungary and Southern Poland.[7] The Dacians spoke the Dacian language, a sub-group of Thracian, but were somewhat culturally influenced by the neighbouring Scythians and by the Celtic invaders of the 4th century BC."
Croatian branch of I2 mostly came from the Dacians. Some Iranic tribe arrived to Carpathians in the migration era. I guess this is "Horvat tribe" or whatever but to be specific they are branch of North Iranic people probably related with "Jassic" people or some other remnant nomadic population that also assimilated into various peoples of the Eurasian Steppe. They probably had female nomads with them, upon their arrival to Carpathian the Dacians assimilated bunch of Feiichys (manly behaving womans) and passed to their offspring Thracian Y-DNA I2. For example when I see western shifted Romanians picking up random "Croatia" region in 23andme but all the eastern shifted Romanians don't, I am confident in this connection
Haplogroup I2
Croatia (38%)
Possible place of origin: Eastern Europe (Balkans), possibly the Eastern Mediterranean
Croatian population 4.076 million, assume half are males 2.038 million, 38% of 2.038 million have I2 haplogroup, majority is PH908
in central Germany there's I2a2Dinaric>PH908>A356/Z16983 which is also found in Serbs. in core Sorb area there's are 2 I2a2 'Dinaric-S' without deeper subclades.
this match of mine is R1a, he didn't test deeper subclades.
so probably I-Z16983 and maybe one R1a subclade brought the Serb name to the Balkans, the other subclades are from those earlier Slavic tribes.
the common ancestor of all these people lived in 350 AD, yeah, he must've been a Dacian :rolleyes:
https://i.imgur.com/OmfaFK7.png
That's one of the theories. But Boii were long gone when Serbs came to that area, i think the theory is actually that "Boiki" was a distorted version of "Boiohaemia". And Serbs didn't settle exactly in Bohemia, but near it.
On the other hand, among east Slavs many words similar to Boiki exist, in Russian бойкий means "smart, quick or brisk" from which comes the nickname and surname "Boiko". Also, in Belarusian mythology , Boiko was one of the forefathers of Slavs, from whom 24 tribes originated.
"The position of northern Serbia seems to have been known to another
Latin author (Frederick I, patriarch of Aquileia) since the beginning of the 10th century. Namely, in the
document written between ca. 900 and 921, it is said that the
Hungarians moved to Pannonia from Serbia (Ungarorum gens a Servia
egressa in Pannoniam)."
"Bojan" is also a very popular Yugoslav name. Probably just coincidence though and not related to the Boii tribe
Balkans got hugely depopulated by Justinian's Plague. We're talking once thriving metropolitan areas now completely empty and +50% people dead in a very short time. Slavs filled the power vacuum.
By the way I don't believe Yugoslavs came from the east, most of them came from southern Poland through this place, a narrow passage between Alps and Carpathians.
https://i.imgur.com/OlX8rTx.png
Scordisci and Thracians were Romanised and Hellenized, so they were Greeks and Vlachs when Slavs arrived.
Goths left a pretty strong genetic influence imo, there is a lot of i1 and North Sea admixture all over the Balkans, even in more isolated areas. i think they refuged in the mountains from Avar invasions and the Justinian plague, and somehow assimilated into Vlachs and Albanians.
there were Slavs coming from both directions. read this article:
http://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/zvwas/zvwas_2.htm
http://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/zvwas/zvwas_043.jpgQuote:
One of the best-known finds on the territory of northern Yugoslavia, indicating links between the Baltic Slavs and the western Ukraine, are silver jewels from a prince's tomb at Čadjavica (seventh century).
Correct. In the case of eastern Slavs (Bulgarians) they are mostly Antes. Slavs with Gothic and Sarmatian substrate.
In fact I'm convinced Bulgarians would cluster west of Yugoslavs had Bulgarians not picked up lots of Byzantine west-Asian stuff during Byzantine era.
There were already Slavs in present day Hungary ; Szolad samples
Like I said, genetics means very little, because those who considered themselves as Serbs 1500 years ago converted to Bogomolism and Catholicism while Serbs spread their namesake to various different Romance and Balkan groups, solely because of extenuating circumstances like the Ottomans and Orthodoxy