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This is a good collection of various Byzantine and more recent source, the page is translated with google translate from Greek to English, so syntax and grammar errors might be found:

According to Byzantine historiographer (15h century) Chalcocondyles, Vrachs/Vrachi (Vlachs) are Dacians from Moldova who settled Epirus, Thessaly and Macedonia.

Sounds to me you're the typical neo-nazi apologist.

You referenced the neo-nazi youtuber, the OP referenced academic sources, so what are you on about, mate?

Neo-nazi youtubers as a source for academic dispute?

Cappadocian and Pontic Greeks and Turks are the closest proximal groups with ADMIXTURE to the Ikiztepe LC remains (Hittite city of Zapulwa has been associated with this site, but not confirmed obviously).

If you want to go by the original division of the "West" and "East" this is the map you are looking for: And this is a modern interpretation.

I don't want to be a debbie downer but for those of you who trust g25 to extract conclusions maybe you should have a look at the following: This was posted by the creator of nmonte on the blogspot of eurogenes: And this is the relevant paper of why you shouldn't trust smartPCA...

Nah ... you're not, but do you mind explaining what is the Atlantic element that you have and you are so passionate about? You don't look like someone from a Western European country that borders the Atlantic Ocean. However, I can see your ancestors raising sheep in the Ottoman Balkan...

Yes, I am sure you did. Second time's a charm!

Yes, many such cases. Veroia was the capital of the Christian Kip-chaks/Cumans for a period, with some families surviving all the way up to the 20th century and today. Christian Tatars from Crimea also settled around Adrianopolis and Constantinople in various stages of the empire. I commend...

Angela, you and Jovialis are absolutely right in your sentiments. Greek people, as a whole, look neither like the people on the Atlantic coastline nor like the people in the Alps. I mean how could they? They have their own streamlined look with influences that make them have common...

They are from Soufli, and originally from Adrianopolis/Edirne, Eastern Thrace has these Tatar/Pecheneg leaning types. And the recent transplants you are referring to are the Albanophones, like your own villages; Christianised Pechenegs and Cumans/Kip-Chaks have settled in (Eastern) Thrace (and...

Pontics do have these broad-faced types, as well, I'd say it's probably half and half, from my experience, because some overlap with South Caucasians from some specific areas (Kars, for example, Rize, and other places). Still, I'd say the most broad-faced types come from Macedonia and Thrace...

Greeks don't overlap with French or Spanish, and why would/should they?