How to tell Balkan people apart (with examples)

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1. Northern Croats and Slovenes.

They are the fairest Balkan people, with relatively high percentage of blondism, especially among women. They also have stereotypical Slavic features, like round head shape, long nose and brachycephaly. They sometimes even show Germanic features.

2. Southern Croats, Hercegovian/Montenegrin Serbs and Bosniaks.

They are predominantly Dinarid and Mediteranid people, and rarely have Slavic features (maybe the least Slavic-looking of all Slavs). Dark hair and dark eyes dominate. Long convex noses, flattened occiputs and dropping ears are very characteristic.





3. Albanians.

Two groups: Dinarid Ghegs and Alpo-Mediterranean Tosks. Ghegs have very unique faces; heart-shaped. Ghegs are the most pigmented Balkan people (Greeks excluded). Convex noses, developed browridges and deep set eyes are quite common. Tosks have rounder features and bigger eyes and are a bit lighter.




4. Romanians and Bulgarians.

The main difference between the two is that Bulgarians have lighter eyes more often. Characteristic features for both are rounder faces, meso- and dolihocephaly (unlike most Balkan people who are brachycephalic), relatively big eyes, straight noses. Resemble quite a lot darker Russian and Ukrainian types.





5. Serbs.

They are good blend of Pontid, Dinarid and Baltid, which gives them very characteristic Slavic look - oval shape of the head, straight or concave noses, brown hair.

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Montenegrins I believe are Serbs, but they look a bit different from other Serbs. That's why I put Montenegrins in group 2 and Serbs in group 5.


I forgot about Macedonians. They should be added in group 4.

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North Serbs often look somewhat like this:

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Salihamijic and Ibrahimovic are very good examples of Bosnians. And they are pretty dark and can easier pass as Turks than as Russians.

[Ayetooey]

^ Ibrahimovic is dark because of his mother, who is Albanian from Zadar. Ibrahimovic father is Bosniak from East Bosnia; Bosniaks in East Bosnia are Muslim Serb settlers. Ibrahimovic father is not dark and looks very Serbian imo.

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^ Ibrahimovic is dark because of his mother, who is Albanian from Zadar. Ibrahimovic father is Bosniak from East Bosnia; Bosniaks in East Bosnia are Muslim Serb settlers. Ibrahimovic father is not dark and looks very Serbian imo.

Lol his father look typical Slav but his son lol.

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Just stereotype, nothing else...

Most of the people will group Macedonians in the fourth group just because of a stereotype...

Macedonians can not simply be grouped in the fourth group just because they are not meso to dolicho on average but with dominant Dinarid element and plus round faces are not the norm...

Macedonians are similar people to Bulgarians no doubt, BUT there is a difference when it comes to phenotype that even the Bulgarians themselves will tell you.

Even the Bulgarians and Romanians are not that similar as some think...

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^ Ibrahimovic is dark because of his mother, who is Albanian from Zadar. Ibrahimovic father is Bosniak from East Bosnia; Bosniaks in East Bosnia are Muslim Serb settlers. Ibrahimovic father is not dark and looks very Serbian imo.

Ok, so Zlatan has no Gypsy in him? This is what i hear. He was once even taunted by opposition fans who were calling him gypsy.

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Cephalic index in Balkans.



The East is more dolicho Skull shape, the West more Brachy (Dinarid mainly).

[Pribislav]

^ Ibrahimovic is dark because of his mother, who is Albanian from Zadar. Ibrahimovic father is Bosniak from East Bosnia; Bosniaks in East Bosnia are Muslim Serb settlers. Ibrahimovic father is not dark and looks very Serbian imo.

Yea, most of Muslims from eastern Bosnia are descendants of imigrants from western and central Serbia in 19th century. Serbs from Podrinje in eastern Bosnia call local Muslims "Užice Muslims" because a lot of them have roots from Užice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Užice
Muslims of eastern Bosnia which not settlers from Serbia are also of Serbian origin, eastern Bosnia was always Serbian ethnic region.