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Yes I've seen quite a few Albanians discussing this theory and I'm actually inclined to believe it, there's other traditions also such as a tattoo tradition which hails from Albania that's only found in Catholics in BIH. We know a lot of Catholic Vlach's got moved into that area as well by the ottomans. I believe Bosniak muslims are actually closer to the medieval catholic Bosnians that modern day BIH "Croats" who are a mix of Vlach and Gheg highlander. Real native medieval Bosnian Catholics either became Bosniak muslims or fled to Croatia.
I've seen stats concerning there haplogroups, but I match with quite a lot of Bosnian Catholics on 23andme from Zenica, Livno and other places and I see more EV13 than anything.
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