Following the population exchanges, many settlements in Greece were named with the prefix 'New' and the name of the original settlement of the displaced inhabitants. I mapped 138 such places in Greece along with their original locations. Load the map in 4k for better clarity.

@nrken19

Apparently, a genomics paper on the Salentine Greeks is forthcoming, while a study on the group’s uniparental lineages was published a few months ago https://t.co/VorfQOwMWv

One common misconception in Greece is the tendency to label certain names as “ancient,” as if that implies that many common names are not. Greek onomastics show remarkable continuity, an unbroken chain stretching back at least to the Archaic period, when inscriptional evidence

@LeonidasDav I’d really value your perspective on this. Does the underlying data justify the conclusion, in your view, or is it more tentative than that?

”That the hypothesis of an Illyrian origin of Albanian has, to this day, largely persisted is ultimately understandable only because it is based on the completely outdated pan-Illyrian concept”

Adding Cretan.HO and Cypriot.HO

Uniparental analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals genetic continuity from the pre-Medieval era https://t.co/Uv6cgAXDFI

Imagine a time traveler in the 19th century meeting two Turks, one from Istanbul and one from Balıkesir. They speak the same language and claim descent from the same people. The traveler, armed with knowledge unavailable to them, informs one that his genetic background differs

The image I attached shows genetic distances between regional populations within the same ethnic groups. A German from Saarland and a German from Memelland may be genetically distant, yet this has no impact on their ethnic affiliation. Their bond rests on a shared identity and

Below a certain threshold of cognitive ability, people seem unable to grasp even basic concepts like ethnic affiliation. Ethnicity is defined by language, culture, shared identity, and perceived descent. Not actual descent. What do I mean by that?

Neither Yamnaya nor any other genetic heritage makes one a Greek, but language and culture. And, by the way, this guy, circa ~1450BC in Pylos had ~0% Yamnaya heritage. https://t.co/8bRfiLKJjs

It's funny that 700 years ago - while nomads were pillaging Anatolia so they can decorate their yurts or some other katund nomads where stealing goats in the Balkans - Greeks were of course feeling proud of their Plato's and other ancient philosophers' heritage in exact the same

4/ This pattern is not limited to subclades of broad haplogroups common among Albanians today (such as R1b), but also extends to less frequent lineages associated with Slavic expansions (like I2a). The absence of Albanian-Arvanite matches indicates that even these were not

3/ "But why are Arvanites historically recorded as members of Albanian clans, Philos?" And to that, I say: assimilation, by definition, implies incorporation into ethno-social units. If Albanian clans were strictly patrilineal descent groups, we would expect near-monolithic

2/ I’ve long maintained that the evidence supports largely local origins with limited, mainly linguistic, Albanian influence in Greece. This view was grounded in autosomal DNA from Arvanite-dense areas, as well as 20th-century anthropological observations, including

🧵 I’ve explored the background of Arvanites extensively here on X. This time, I compiled their patrilineages from the Greek DNA project, and the overall picture aligns with my earlier assessments about their origins.

@DIAS This is selective low IQ logic. Ancient and modern Anatolian Greeks are not considered "truly Greek" due to assimilation and supposedly limited Greek genetic input, yet groups like Carians and Hittites, who themselves emerged from heavily assimilated pre-Anatolian-speaking

Worth noting: the deviation of northern Greeks toward South Slavs cannot be explained solely by Slavic admixture or recent gene flow. Ancient northern Greek populations were already more northern-shifted than southerners (Mycenaeans), who carried a more diluted proto-Greek

Averaging samples by region/subpopulation reduces individual variation, making clusters more distinct and easier to interpret. Doing so reveals the following: - Greeks and Albanians form distinct clusters, with internal variation along a Slavic cline. - Gene flow is

I put together a PCA using averaged source populations projected onto the G25 West Eurasian dataset. The accompanying map displays sample locations. I’ll share the main takeaways below. Load the map in 4K for better clarity