Albanians of this sub, do you feel more Eastern European or more Western European? No, “Balkan” and “Southern European” are not valid answers to this specific question
Whenever I see her I always think she must have some southern European in her (Italy, Spanish) - but apparently not, she's legit Scandi. Beautiful regardless...
GEDmatch results- half Southern Italian (with one great grandparent Sicilian), half Northwestern and Eastern European. I think it's reflecting a lot of my likely (ancient) Greek ancestry via Greek colonies in southern Italy with the about 20% Eastern Mediterranean? Not sure what else it means!
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Guess the city (clue: it's on a southern European country)
Thoughts on my results? I was surprised by the southern european but the siberian is probably noise right? From a small town with huge irish-scottish immigration.
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CMV: Greece is an Eastern European and a Balkan country before it is Southern or Mediterranean.
Greece is in the Mediterranean and in Southern Europe geographically as well as in the Balkans which is considered Southeastern Europe but its historic and cultural affinities at least within the last 1000 years are primarily with their Eastern European neighbors.
Despite being commonly associated with and grouped with Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, it really belongs in Eastern Europe, specifically the Balkans.
Greece is excluded because the West idolizes ancient Greeks.
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Greece is overwhelmingly Eastern Orthodox like the majority of Eastern Europe.
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Greek food, music, and culture is most similar to that of other Balkan nations, such as Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, and North Macedonia, and is a mixture of Byzantine, Ottoman Turkish, Slavic, and Mediterranean influences.
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Despite not speaking a Slavic language, there is a significant Slavic ancestral component to most Greeks, which means that to some extent they share similarities to nations we would not question as being Eastern European. Additionally, there are non-Slavic countries in Eastern Europe such as Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia etc.
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Being part of the Soviet Union is neither a necessary condition for being Eastern European nor was the entire Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. We consider Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria to be in Eastern Europe but they were never in the Soviet Union.
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The Greek alphabet is the basis of Cyrillic and Eastern Europe is along with Greece the religious heir of the Byzantine Empire.
What exactly does Greece share with Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Syria to justify grouping it with them before Eastern Europe? Italy is the exception due to historical ties. But that’s one country.
Born to Polish parents, accurate results. I think the southern European/ Jewish trace DNA are just noise, probably from a single ancestor from the Balkans or Italy way back when. Definitely not Jewish at all.
No one talks about this but southern european countries (espacially Italy) are really bad for autistic people
I'm not talking only about myself but in general about autistic people, I live in Italy where the 90% of the people that I met were very rude and bad (especially in the newer generations), people talk very loud there, if an autistic person (I don't do this) cover his/her ears people will start to look at you in a bad way and maybe even making fun of you, If you don't take sarcasm here people that are serious are very rare, people only do black humor EVERYTIME even when they shouldn't do that. People are gonna look bad at you if you don't like soccer or/and you don't listen to trap music. Since italian people are known for being one of the most extrovert people you can already understand how being autistic there it's very bad. Do you hate when people just don't respect the rules?, then you will provably suffer in Italy. Wish I could go to a more mature country, bad people are everywhere but nice people there are very rare
From Slovenia, but quite surprised at the percentage of Southern European,the Trace Ancestry makes 0 sense as well
My grandparents in Southern California sometime in the 40s. They got together fairly last minute to get married before my grandfather shipped out to England. He was a bomber pilot in the European theater during WW2.
Why did it take so long for Europeans to round the southern tip of Africa?
Christopher Columbus famously traversed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Europeans had not discovered the Western Hemisphere because they did not have technology to travel such far distances, given the amount of supplies they could hold for the trip. (Or so I think, maybe I'm wrong on that one.) Europeans also did not know that the American continents even existed. Europeans also did round pass the southern tip of Africa until Dias did it in 1488, only four years before the journey of Columbus. How hard would it have been to simply follow the African coast south? Couldn't Europeans have done this centuries earlier? Europeans obviously knew about the African continent, and couldn't they have resupplied while making stops on the west coast of Africa? Why did it take so long for them to finally get around the southern tip? Did crossing the Sahara present a challenge because there would have been no place to resupply along the coast at those latitudes?
How do you see eastern europeans and southern europeans
Bit controversial topic but i'm eastern european and after reading many forums ( 4chan, reddit, apricity forums ) i have impression that eastern europeans are europeans of inferior stock in many people eyes and southern europeans for many are just arabs reskinned. So do you think that we are white.
does anyone know what Broadly European/Broadly Southern European mean?
Lebanese: do you consider Southern Europeans culturally close to yourselves?
These are countries such as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, islands such as Cyprus and Sicily etc.
Do you view these places as similar to Lebanon or do you view yourselves as distant and removed from them?
First image of a new solar system. Taken by the European Southern Observatory. It looks like I’m staring at Azathoth.
The animals of the "PALAEOLOXODON FAUNAL ASSEMBLAGE". These are not the only large herbivores of interglacial Europe, but these are the ones that come as a package, spreading out from southern European refugia after glacial periods to join other species such as red deer, moose and bison
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Why did Europeans send more settlers to their southern African colonies than their other ones?
Anyone have info on what this may possibly be depicting? Broadly southern European, hand-painted, Mid-late 1800s. Has been restored (badly.) [4032x3042]
Why does the architecture of southern European towns and cities, for e.g, look more aesthetically pleasing than similar sized towns and cities in Britain?
Putting aside the likes of Edinburgh, London and a handful of others. Why do many big cities and towns in Europe, but specifically southern Europe, have more pleasing and uplifting architecture?
It's quite frustrating actually, because as somebody who likes art and beautiful looking buildings, it is a shame there is little pride in how many of our town and cities look from an aesthetic standpoint. If it was my choice, I'd like to add more colour to the buildings on top of changing the architecture. I guess the weather doesn't help, but still, they could be made to look so much better.
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest & sharpest images of the region around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The new images zoom in 20 times more than what was possible before the VLTI.
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Blue carpenter bees, native to southern Asia, make honey like European honeybees, but it’s much thicker and denser than the honey we’re used to, like cookie dough or peanut butter consistency. The female bees mix this honey with pollen to create ‘bee bread’ upon which they lay their eggs.
Southern vs Northern European lesbian culture
I've been thinking about this a bunch lately. It seems like in Spain/Italy/France, so like Latin/Romance countries, there is much less gay clubs and special LGBT culture, it's more blended together and gay people are less obvious and easy to find. Whereas in Germany/UK/Nordics there's more LGBT meetups, bars, clubs, and organizations, if you see what I'm saying.
Is this just me, or has anyone else experienced this? I was shocked to see that in London, for example, there is a "gay neighbourhood!" Such a thing would not exist in Madrid lmao
Quick Question. Since the Rhine and Danube are connected, does that make Western and Southern Europe a Island and not part of the European Peninsula?
Genetics-American Mut: 38% Spain, 15% Indigenous America, 13% Basque, 10% Portugal, 6% Northern Italy, 5% European Jewish, 3% Scotland, 3% Wales, 2% France, 2% Southern Italy, 2% England & Northwestern Europe, 1% Balkans
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Greece journalists denounce press freedom backslide – The southern European country fell five spots in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, and now ranks 70th out of 180 countries, behind Poland and Mongolia
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2003 Qedos Esperanca EuroCity. A three cylinder, 90 hp small MPV designed with the Western and Southern European market in mind.
My 23andMe results vs. my Ancestry results. I find it interesting that Ancestry did not pick up any Southern European unlike 23andMe.
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TIL The original Penguin, known as the Great Auk, lived in the northern hemisphere, and settled as far south as Cape Cod. It was driven to extinction through hunting. When Europeans saw Southern Hemisphere seabirds, they named them “penguins” after the Great Auk’s Latin name
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Image decorating the wall of an office. Large statue on a detailled stand of a horseman. Somewhere in western Europe, architecture looks northern European (Germanic/Frankish) but colours suggest a more southern or eastern location
Was there a significant spice trade in Southern Africa prior to European colonialism?
I asked a similar question regarding the existence of a spice trade between foreigners and the Khoekhoe and San peoples but it seemed a little too specific to get an answer.
I know there was trade between people from the Far East and Arabia and those who ruled in Mapungubwe but I specifically want to know whether or not spice was a part of that.
As an aside I would also be interested in what was traded for it.
TIA!
Me & My Wife’s results came back the other day, she was surprised by her Percentage of Indian and I was surprised by the Southern European, Indian, Egyptian, and Sudanese. We’re expecting our first child in April!
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Of the main Southern European regions plus Albania, which have the most people who look “Slavic”?
Which? Same idea as before.
By Slavic I mean all Slavic countries or a look that would be read as Slavic.
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Virginia White Gourdseed corn I just harvested. This variety is believed to have been grown by the Native Americans in southern Virginia (where I am) before contact with Europeans. Thomas Jefferson grew it at Monticello. I use it for meal, grits, and hominy.
Don't know why the punjabi people's obsession to show themselves as of European race? Everywhere on internet jatts writing on how they're of different race from central and southern indians.
Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy - The European Southern Observatory published this 20-year time-lapse of stars near the center of our galaxy in 2018
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Do Anatolians, Levantines, and North Africans have Southern European ancestry hidden in the West Asian and North African category?
I have noticed that many Greeks and Southern Italians have varying amounts of West Asian ancestry in their 23andMe results. Furthermore, it is said that the Spanish and Portuguese category hides a small amount of North African ancestry. Considering the fact that many peoples sailed throughout the Mediterranean Sea throughout history, I doubt the flow of genetic ancestry was exclusively from West Asia and North Africa to Southern Europe and never vice versa.
Which Southern European groups looks the closest to Amazigh people?
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