Kazakh Y-DNA suggests the presence of Pecheneg survivors in the Balkans?

[Kaspias]

A recent article investigated Kazakh Y-DNA by clustering individuals according to their tribes. Among these, the tribe "Kangly" showed a 66.7%(N=27) Q percentage whilst the presence of Q within all samples was only 3.1%. Among 27 Kangly members, 16 of them were belonging to Q-L330. The total distribution of L330 within all samples was less than 1%.

Three Big-Y tested L330 individuals (2x Q-F16045 & 1x Q-F20181) from the Balkans clusters with samples from the Tian Shan, where the Kangly tribe was also settled in.






Very interesting lineages... "tanta-bylgary", "omyrtka"



Three elite Pecheneg clans who migrated to the West of Dnieper were of Kangar/Kangly stock. The close contacts of the Pechenegs with the Byzantines began when Bulgaria came under Byzantine rule in 1018. The Pechenegs crossed the Danube for the first time in 1035 and plundered the southern banks of the river, and entered Byzantine territory three times in 1036. The raid they made in 1048 was terrifying, and after they destroyed Bulgaria, they continued their raids and plundered other parts of the Balkans. However, these raids weakened due to the internal conflicts that started, and two Pecheneg tribes took refuge in Byzantium. The Byzantine State gave these tribes land along the Danube and near Silistra and assigned them as border guards. As the power of plunderers is getting weakened, more and more Pecheneg people were migrated to the Byzantine, usually were settled around in today's Bulgaria but also were distributed to the all over Balkans and Anatolia with the purpose of assimilation and usage as border guards of them.


Pecheneg tombs in Bulgaria which have been able to found until now:

[Peceneg]

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