Extinct Germanic Groups

[d3cimat3d]

are there any Eastern Germanic haplotypes left in central-eastern-southern europe ?

Yes there are, here's a chart of the haplogroups of South-east Europe, suprisingly the Gagauz, a Turkic speaking people have the highest concentration of haplogroup I1a in that region.

Do we even know what haplotypes they carried ?

I1a for sure.

[lei.talk]

Excellent map.
That disproves the claim by some Polish ultra-nationalists
that the taking of Germany's lands after WWI & WWII
was only a 'retaking' of lands that 'were traditionally slavic'.

[Osweo]

Come now, lei.talk! I thought you were more computer savvy than to have to ask that!

I clicked the down-link's 'properties' with the right mouse button, and saved the last part of the url; 757px-Roman_Empire_125-1.png

I do a lickle search....
and;
http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...a7850fec_m.png

now let's see if hyper linking works...

(by the way, it's of no modern politica use, as Sword was hoping. It's open to interpretation, anyway.)

EDIT: the more I look at the map, the more approximate it seems. I would say that the northern peoples are all shoved too far east. There's little reason to suppose Tacitus was talking of anything into modern Russia with his 'Venedi'. Perhaps the map was slighly political in its framing....