Why are Central Europeans much more closer to Northern Euros than to Southern Europeans?

[Cernunnos]

Central Europe (Southern/Central Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and perhaps some regions of Poland and Hungary) geographically and mathmaticaly is in between Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Balkans and Greece) and Northern Europe (Scandinavia, Northern Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Baltic States) and theoricaly they should look inbetween Southern Euros and Northern Euros but to me a person from Vienna, Prague or Munich is much more close to pass in Oslo, Stockholm or Copenhagen than to pass in Lisbon, Rome or Athens.

You see much more Nordics in Austria or Switzerland than Atlanto Meds, Alpine-Med or Gracile Meds.....

Sub Nordics are commonplace in Austria but rare in Mediterranean countries.

To my view historicaly much of the current Central European region was under Roman occupation, had Celtic peoples inhabitating as well as in Southern Europe (Iberia, Italy.....) but it seems that the Germanic/Scandinavian contributions ended up being more important and numerous than the Mediterranean ones....

Discuss.

[Veslan]

Mountainous regions llike the Alps and the Carpathians favoured Alpine and Dinaric type settlers over the purely Mediterranean ones. This is why the Mediterranean element is significantly weaker than Alpine and thus they miss the "Southern" look. They have a more "Northern" look due to mixing with Cro-Magnon and Nordic type peoples (Slavs, Germanics, Celts, as well as the European Hunther-Gatherers in general) instead.

[Cristiano viejo]

Because many of them (French, Suiss, Belgians, Germans, Dutch or British) are Germanic just like North Europeans

[Jana]

Bullshit. And stop putting us with southern Europeans, we are not similar at all.

[Cernunnos]

Bullshit. And stop putting us with southern Europeans, we are not similar at all.

LOL!

Croatia is full of Nordic and Subnordic looking people, and should belong to the Central-Northern European axis....

[Jana]

LOL!

Croatia is full of Nordic and Subnordic looking people, and should belong to the Central-Northern European axis....

No idiot, I never said that despite I fit better in Sweden than in Greece.

I said we have ethnically and genetically nothing to do with southern Europeans. We are Eastern Europeans with Balkan admixture.
For your information


And yes, we largerly overlap Hungarians on PCA maps and well as Slovenians, which is East-Central Europe. Does it bother you ? Piss off.

[Tooting Carmen]

I've said all this before myself. Perhaps it is to do partly with climate, and partly with (now whisper it) the invasions from North Africa and the Middle East into parts of Southern Europe.

[Cernunnos]

No idiot, I never said that despite I fit better in Sweden than in Greece.

I said we have ethnically and genetically nothing to do with southern Europeans. We are Eastern Europeans with Balkan admixture.
For your information


And yes, we largerly overlap Hungarians on PCA maps and well as Slovenians, which is East-Central Europe. Does it bother you ? Piss off.

So a bunch of Catholic Slavs who type/write in the Latin Alphabet have nothing to do with Southern Europe?

I assume that an average Russian or Ukrainian gives a fuck about Croatia or Croats, while Italins and Serbs give because they have historical rivalries and territorial/ethnical disputes with Croatia. Croatia in that map is as distant from Iberia as to Russia.....

[Cristiano viejo]

I've said all this before myself. Perhaps it is to do partly with climate, and partly with (now whisper it) the invasions from North Africa and the Middle East into parts of Southern Europe.

That does not work because Central Europe also suffered invasions from the Middle East.

[Silver Lining]

Because Southern European-looking guys were bullied into suicide.