Slavic DNA in Spain

[Ibericus]

I have seen several spanish individuals on myheritage with up to 5% eastern European.

In my case I get about 3.5% eastern European on myheritage and 5.5% north slavic on DNA land.

Eurogenes K36 gives me these eastern percentages:

Central_Euro 5.65 Pct
East_African -
East_Asian -
East_Balkan 3.53 Pct
East_Central_Asian -
East_Central_Euro 2.25 Pct
East_Med 3.30 Pct
Eastern_Euro 1.67

Also Italian 11.9 Pct

Do you think these 'eastern' numbers are just noise? As far as I know all my 4 grandparents are Spanish.

[lgmayka]

Are you descended from the man commonly known as Christopher Columbus? According to one Portuguese researcher who spent decades on the issue (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/8166041/Christopher-Columbus-was-son-of-Polish-king.html), "Columbus" was actually the son of an exiled Polish-Lithuanian king.

[Ruderico]

Welcome, there is a Spanish section here, you might want to ask there.

About your results, part of the issue is MyHeritage and how bizarre their results are. In K36 that's pretty normal, as is in the better K13 and K15

[Ibericus]

Welcome, there is a Spanish section here, you might want to ask there.

Thanks, Ruderico. I will definitely explore that section.

[Borte]

My Heritage is sketchy with results but there were a good number of Slavs in medieval Spain as slaves, soldiers and eunuchs, called Saqaliba (just means Slavs).

[Ibericus]

I found this on Eupedia:

The Visigothic Kingdom was the larger and longer lived than the Suebi Kingdom, and yet the Goths do not seem to have had any significant genetic impact on the Iberian population - at least not in terms of Germanic Y-DNA. The reason might simply be that they were no longer a predominantly Germanic tribe. After all, the Goths had lived for many centuries in Eastern Europe and nearly two more centuries in the Balkans before invading Italy, Gaul and Iberia. They could have assimilated a lot of non-Germanic people on the way, notably R1a and I2a1b Slavs and predominantly E1b1b, I2a1b and J2 Balkanic people. It would be pretty complicated at the moment to untangle the Balkanic E1b1b and J2 from all the others (Neolithic, Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Arabic) found in Iberia. But it is remarkably easy to check the Eastern European I2a1b (M423) and R1a (M458 and Z280). No historical migration could account for Slavic haplogroups in Iberia apart from the East European populations assimilated by the Goths before the 4th century. The I2a Project at FTDNA has three M423-Dinaric-N and one M423-Isles-B2 from Spain, while the R1a1a and Subclades Y-DNA Project has four Spanish Z280 (CTS1211+) members

[George]

I found this on Eupedia:

The Visigothic Kingdom was the larger and longer lived than the Suebi Kingdom, and yet the Goths do not seem to have had any significant genetic impact on the Iberian population - at least not in terms of Germanic Y-DNA. The reason might simply be that they were no longer a predominantly Germanic tribe. After all, the Goths had lived for many centuries in Eastern Europe and nearly two more centuries in the Balkans before invading Italy, Gaul and Iberia. They could have assimilated a lot of non-Germanic people on the way, notably R1a and I2a1b Slavs and predominantly E1b1b, I2a1b and J2 Balkanic people. It would be pretty complicated at the moment to untangle the Balkanic E1b1b and J2 from all the others (Neolithic, Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Arabic) found in Iberia. But it is remarkably easy to check the Eastern European I2a1b (M423) and R1a (M458 and Z280). No historical migration could account for Slavic haplogroups in Iberia apart from the East European populations assimilated by the Goths before the 4th century. The I2a Project at FTDNA has three M423-Dinaric-N and one M423-Isles-B2 from Spain, while the R1a1a and Subclades Y-DNA Project has four Spanish Z280 (CTS1211+) members
During the Byzantine reconquista of Greece and some of the Balkans esp. in the 7th and 8th cs a great number of Slavs were captured and sold into slavery from Thessaloniki. Some undoubtedly must have wound up in Spain (and elsewhere)

[Shadogowah]

During the Byzantine reconquista of Greece and some of the Balkans esp. in the 7th and 8th cs a great number of Slavs were captured and sold into slavery from Thessaloniki. Some undoubtedly must have wound up in Spain (and elsewhere)

We know from recent ancient remain analysis that Visigoths (by the time they arrived to Spain) had a very important Balkan admixture. I think they could explain why Spaniards score a small but significant amount on categories associated to Balkan people.

But we also have the Saqalibah indeed as an explanation.

[td120]

During the Byzantine reconquista of Greece and some of the Balkans esp. in the 7th and 8th cs a great number of Slavs were captured and sold into slavery from Thessaloniki. Some undoubtedly must have wound up in Spain (and elsewhere)

The influx continues much later, at one point slaves made up to 1/3 of the population of Mallorca. Having offspring with the slave women was commonplace,like on Crete and so was the granted freedom after some years served by their masters.Russians,Balkan Slavs etc.

[Ruderico]

The influx continues much later, at one point slaves made up to 1/3 of the population of Mallorca. Having offspring with the slave women was commonplace,like on Crete and so was the granted freedom after some years served by their masters.Russians,Balkan Slavs etc.

I'm not sure of those figures, but for what is worth people from the Balearic islands do seem more Mediterranean than most in continental Spain, at least those available in G25. There's other explanations though.

[Generalissimo]

There's no Slavic ancestry in Iberia.

[JJJ]

According to Eupedia there are 9.5% (l2+R1a) of Slavic haplogroups in Iberia. The most striking case is in Cantabria with 8.5% R1a.

https://www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml

[Generalissimo]

According to Eupedia there are 9.5% (l2+R1a) of Slavic haplogroups in Iberia. The most striking case is in Cantabria with 8.5% R1a.

https://www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml

Eupedia can go to hell.

[JJJ]

Eupedia can go to hell.

Hard statements.

[mihaitzateo]

I have seen several spanish individuals on myheritage with up to 5% eastern European.

In my case I get about 3.5% eastern European on myheritage and 5.5% north slavic on DNA land.

Eurogenes K36 gives me these eastern percentages:

Central_Euro 5.65 Pct
East_African -
East_Asian -
East_Balkan 3.53 Pct
East_Central_Asian -
East_Central_Euro 2.25 Pct
East_Med 3.30 Pct
Eastern_Euro 1.67

Also Italian 11.9 Pct

Do you think these 'eastern' numbers are just noise? As far as I know all my 4 grandparents are Spanish.


Your Central Euro and East Balkan and East Central Euro and Eastern Euro and East Med was brought by the migration of the Gothic tribes, including Visigothic people.
They were not Slavs, from a cultural point of view, but East Germanics, most close to our days Romanians.
Later most Gothic tribes got Slavizied and that happened in Balkans and Ukraine.
The Gothic tribes from Romania/Dacia lands become Latinized.
I have explained a lot in other threads, including on Eupedia that I2-din is not compulsory Slavic.
There is I2-din in Greece or Romania, that came there before 600-700 AD.
So, it came with migration of Dacian or Gothic people.
Regarding the theory that Gothic tribes came from Sweden, that was a legend.
East Germanic language was not mutually inteligible with Old Norse, neither with West Germanic languages.
Goths were attested in NW Poland, by archaelogical discoveries, most Northwards.
And from the writings of Roman and Greek historians, Gothic tribes are attested especially on the land of Romania/Dacia and in Central NE Europe and in Balkans.
Romania is full of archaelogical proofs that most Gothic tribes settled in Romania.

Later, a part of the Gothic tribes are migration Westwards, a part settling in Italy and another part in Spain.
You can tell your Eastern DNA is Romanian :) ,or DacianGothic. East Balkanic AU DNA peaks only in Romanian ethnics.
That East Balkanic is surely only Dacian and Gothic.

That "Central Euro" has been picked by Goths from Hallstatt Celts and Dacian Celtic tribes, very likely.
East Med, was taken from ancient Greeks and/or Thracians.

[Generalissimo]

Hard statements.

Has the Eupedia circus finally acknowledged the presence of R1b in Upper Paleolithic Europe?

[mihaitzateo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom

[NixYO]

I'm not sure of those figures, but for what is worth people from the Balearic islands do seem more Mediterranean than most in continental Spain, at least those available in G25. There's other explanations though.
I have just figured out how to use Vahaduo and nMonte3, so I have started to play around some with those two tools, and this means that I do not understand all things G25; for example, what is the difference between scaled and unscaled G25 data?

With all the Balearic, Menorcan and Mallorcan averages removed from Global25_PCA_modern_pop_averages_scaled, I get this with six samples from Global25_PCA_modern_scaled:

Spanish_Baleares:HG01613 (Vahaduo):
Distance to: Spanish_Baleares:HG01613
0.01781057 Spanish_Girona
0.02107938 Spanish_Penedes
0.02190430 Spanish_Peri-Barcelona
0.02241564 Spanish_Catalunya_Central
0.02272525 Spanish_Eivissa
0.02273257 French_Provence
0.02336282 Spanish_Castello
0.02405513 Spanish_Lleida
0.02429250 Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
0.02467853 Spanish_Alacant
0.02513167 Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige
0.02564185 Italian_Veneto
0.02623788 Spanish_Pirineu
0.02628750 Spanish_Cataluna
0.02648508 Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre
0.02738762 Swiss_French
0.02740155 Spanish_Cantabria
0.02744768 Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
0.02754399 Spanish_Aragon
0.02794215 Spanish_Galicia
0.02803770 Spanish_Valencia
0.02811408 Italian_Bergamo
0.02856799 Portuguese
0.02863765 Spanish_Barcelones
0.02897953 Spanish_Murcia

Target: Spanish_Baleares:HG01613
Distance: 1.2610% / 0.01260989
30.8 Spanish_Soria
30.0 French_Paris
12.8 Italian_Umbria
11.8 Swiss_Italian
9.4 Sardinian
4.6 Greek_Thessaly
0.2 Berber_MAR_TIZ
0.2 Ju_hoan_North
0.2 Luhya_Kenya
Spanish_Baleares:HG01613 (nMonte3):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Spanish_Girona Spanish_Penedes Spanish_Peri-Barcelona
1.781057 2.107938 2.190430
Spanish_Catalunya_Central Spanish_Eivissa French_Provence
2.241564 2.272525 2.273257
Spanish_Castello Spanish_Lleida
2.336282 2.405513

[1] "2. FULL TABLE nMONTE"
[1] "penalty= 0.001"
[1] "Ncycles= 1000"

[...]

[1] "distance%=1.4428"

Spanish_Baleares:HG01613

Spanish_Girona,46.2
Spanish_Soria,16.6
Italian_Veneto,9.8
French_Provence,9.2
Italian_Bergamo,2.4
Swiss_Italian,2.4
Italian_Umbria,1.2
Sardinian,1.2
Spanish_Penedes,1.2
French_Corsica,1
Spanish_Castello,1
Spanish_Catalunya_Central,0.8
Greek_Peloponnese,0.6
Italian_Piedmont,0.6
Spanish_Cantabria,0.6
Italian_Abruzzo,0.4
Italian_Basilicata,0.4
Italian_Lazio,0.4
Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige,0.4
Italian_Tuscany,0.4
Spanish_Eivissa,0.4
Swiss_French,0.4
French_Paris,0.2
Greek_Central_Anatolia,0.2
Greek_Central_Macedonia,0.2
Greek_Izmir,0.2
Greek_Thessaly,0.2
Italian_Aosta_Valley,0.2
Italian_Apulia,0.2
Italian_Calabria,0.2
Italian_Northeast,0.2
Lak,0.2
Saharawi,0.2
Spanish_Alacant,0.2

Spanish_Baleares:HG01615 (Vahaduo):
Distance to: Spanish_Baleares:HG01615
0.01698449 Spanish_Eivissa
0.01760657 Spanish_Alacant
0.01785137 Spanish_Peri-Barcelona
0.01803322 Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
0.01881693 Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
0.01893240 Spanish_Valencia
0.01900640 Spanish_Girona
0.01918276 Spanish_Lleida
0.01926878 Spanish_Murcia
0.01958525 Spanish_Barcelones
0.01995145 Spanish_Andalucia
0.02002884 Spanish_Pirineu
0.02046148 Spanish_Catalunya_Central
0.02082156 Spanish_Penedes
0.02098178 Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre
0.02107612 Spanish_Castello
0.02118176 Spanish_Galicia
0.02135857 Spanish_Cataluna
0.02178970 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon
0.02244196 Portuguese
0.02252555 Spanish_Aragon
0.02348406 Spanish_Extremadura
0.02381036 Spanish_Cantabria
0.02489743 Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige
0.02716500 French_Provence

Target: Spanish_Baleares:HG01615
Distance: 0.7739% / 0.00773855
31.4 Basque_French
20.0 Swiss_French
16.4 Italian_Veneto
14.0 Sardinian
3.6 Sorb_Niederlausitz
3.4 Macedonian
3.0 Shetlandic
2.8 Greek_Thrace
1.2 Ethiopian_Jew
1.2 Gupta
1.0 Somali
1.0 Yemenite_Al_Bayda
0.8 Ethiopian_Afar
0.2 Surui
Spanish_Baleares:HG01615 (nMonte3):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Spanish_Eivissa Spanish_Alacant
1.698449 1.760657
Spanish_Peri-Barcelona Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
1.785137 1.803322
Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona Spanish_Valencia
1.881693 1.893240
Spanish_Girona Spanish_Lleida
1.900640 1.918276

[1] "2. FULL TABLE nMONTE"
[1] "penalty= 0.001"
[1] "Ncycles= 1000"

[...]

[1] "distance%=1.2981"

Spanish_Baleares:HG01615

Spanish_Alacant,23.6
Spanish_Barcelones,17.2
Spanish_Murcia,14.4
Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha,6.8
Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon,6
Spanish_Girona,4.2
Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige,2.4
Spanish_Catalunya_Central,2.2
Spanish_Lleida,2.2
Basque_French,2
Sardinian,2
Spanish_Eivissa,1.8
Spanish_Peri-Barcelona,1.6
French_South,1.4
Italian_Veneto,1.2
Italian_Liguria,0.8
Spanish_La_Rioja,0.8
Albanian,0.6
French_Corsica,0.6
Greek_Central_Macedonia,0.6
Greek_Peloponnese,0.6
Italian_Bergamo,0.6
Bosnian,0.4
Greek_Thessaly,0.4
Italian_Tuscany,0.4
Latvian,0.4
Moldavian,0.4
Sicilian_East,0.4
Sorb_Niederlausitz,0.4
Greek_Crete,0.2
Hungarian,0.2
Italian_Apulia,0.2
Italian_Basilicata,0.2
Italian_Molise,0.2
Italian_Northeast,0.2
Laka,0.2
Macedonian,0.2
Palestinian,0.2
Roma_Madrid,0.2
Romanian,0.2
Russian_Smolensk,0.2
Russian_Tver,0.2
Serbian,0.2
Sicilian_West,0.2
Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona,0.2
Swiss_French,0.2
Swiss_German,0.2

Spanish_Baleares:HG01625 (Vahaduo):
Distance to: Spanish_Baleares:HG01625
0.01809298 Spanish_Eivissa
0.01880967 Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
0.01908585 Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
0.01929401 Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre
0.01959594 Spanish_Girona
0.01990842 Spanish_Lleida
0.01991219 Spanish_Peri-Barcelona
0.02102115 Spanish_Valencia
0.02139496 Spanish_Catalunya_Central
0.02152337 Spanish_Cataluna
0.02184065 Spanish_Galicia
0.02185655 Spanish_Penedes
0.02282530 Spanish_Alacant
0.02295786 Portuguese
0.02306476 Spanish_Castello
0.02308843 Spanish_Andalucia
0.02322881 Spanish_Murcia
0.02335567 Spanish_Barcelones
0.02405957 Spanish_Aragon
0.02415636 Spanish_Pirineu
0.02460213 Spanish_Cantabria
0.02509667 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon
0.02528561 French_Provence
0.02536679 Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige
0.02703963 Spanish_Extremadura

Target: Spanish_Baleares:HG01625
Distance: 1.2743% / 0.01274339
36.4 Italian_Lombardy
33.4 Spanish_La_Rioja
12.8 Shetlandic
5.4 Scottish
4.8 Sardinian
1.8 Berber_MAR_TIZ
1.6 Mozabite
1.6 Spanish_Pais_Vasco
1.2 Ket
0.6 Spanish_Soria
0.2 Ju_hoan_North
0.2 Moroccan_South
Spanish_Baleares:HG01625 (nMonte3):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Spanish_Eivissa Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
1.809298 1.880967
Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre
1.908585 1.929401
Spanish_Girona Spanish_Lleida
1.959594 1.990842
Spanish_Peri-Barcelona Spanish_Valencia
1.991219 2.102115

[1] "2. FULL TABLE nMONTE"
[1] "penalty= 0.001"
[1] "Ncycles= 1000"

[...]

[1] "distance%=1.5451"

Spanish_Baleares:HG01625

Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona,18.2
Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre,16.4
Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha,13.8
Spanish_Girona,8.6
Spanish_Eivissa,5.8
Spanish_Lleida,5.8
Spanish_Catalunya_Central,4
Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige,3.2
French_Provence,3
Spanish_La_Rioja,2.4
Italian_Lombardy,1.6
Spanish_Cataluna,1.6
Spanish_Soria,1.4
Italian_Bergamo,0.8
Italian_Liguria,0.8
Portuguese,0.8
Spanish_Cantabria,0.8
French_Auvergne,0.6
Italian_Abruzzo,0.6
Italian_Veneto,0.6
Sardinian,0.6
Spanish_Asturias,0.6
Albanian,0.4
Algerian,0.4
Berber_MAR_ERR,0.4
Dutch,0.4
Greek_Izmir,0.4
Italian_Marche,0.4
Italian_Piedmont,0.4
Moldavian,0.4
Serbian,0.4
Shetlandic,0.4
Tunisian_Jew,0.4
Berber_Tunisia_Chen,0.2
English_Cornwall,0.2
Finnish,0.2
French_Alsace,0.2
French_Corsica,0.2
French_Nord,0.2
French_Paris,0.2
Italian_Apulia,0.2
Italian_Molise,0.2
Italian_Northeast,0.2
Italian_Umbria,0.2
Libyan,0.2
Maltese,0.2
Moroccan_Jew,0.2
Norwegian,0.2
Saharawi,0.2
Scottish,0.2
Spanish_Canarias,0.2

Spanish_Mallorca:ALE339 (Vahaduo):
Distance to: Spanish_Mallorca:ALE339
0.01729408 Spanish_Galicia
0.01759418 Portuguese
0.01859640 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon
0.01911293 Spanish_Eivissa
0.01995368 Spanish_Andalucia
0.02051130 Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
0.02089698 Spanish_Extremadura
0.02139952 Spanish_Valencia
0.02261570 Spanish_Murcia
0.02273186 Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
0.02308351 Spanish_Alacant
0.02343329 Spanish_Aragon
0.02345585 Spanish_Cataluna
0.02362398 Spanish_Girona
0.02371476 Spanish_Peri-Barcelona
0.02376154 Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre
0.02488948 Spanish_Penedes
0.02491333 Spanish_Lleida
0.02531728 Spanish_Barcelones
0.02612313 Spanish_Pirineu
0.02818708 Spanish_Catalunya_Central
0.02952318 French_Provence
0.02993045 Spanish_Castello
0.03066287 Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige
0.03169586 Spanish_Navarra

Target: Spanish_Mallorca:ALE339
Distance: 1.1075% / 0.01107470
30.0 Spanish_Pais_Vasco
29.2 Spanish_Aragon
10.4 Moroccan_Jew
8.8 Greek_Thessaly
7.8 English_Cornwall
7.0 Bosnian
4.2 Saharawi
1.6 Czech
0.8 Gupta
0.2 Kubachinian
Spanish_Mallorca:ALE339 (nMonte3):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Spanish_Galicia Portuguese
1.729408 1.759418
Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon Spanish_Eivissa
1.859640 1.911293
Spanish_Andalucia Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
1.995368 2.051130
Spanish_Extremadura Spanish_Valencia
2.089698 2.139952

[1] "2. FULL TABLE nMONTE"
[1] "penalty= 0.001"
[1] "Ncycles= 1000"

[...]

[1] "distance%=1.3841"

Spanish_Mallorca:ALE339

Spanish_Galicia,29.6
Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon,24.4
Portuguese,10.4
Spanish_Aragon,6.6
Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha,3.8
Italian_Liguria,2.6
Spanish_Barcelones,2.2
Spanish_Pais_Vasco,2.2
Spanish_Girona,2
Spanish_Asturias,1.6
Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre,1.2
French_Alsace,0.6
Moldavian,0.6
Slovakian,0.6
Swiss_French,0.6
Berber_MAR_ERR,0.4
Dutch,0.4
English_Cornwall,0.4
Greek_Central_Anatolia,0.4
Greek_Crete,0.4
Italian_Aosta_Valley,0.4
Italian_Lombardy,0.4
Italian_Tuscany,0.4
Maltese,0.4
Tajik_Ishkashim,0.4
Abazin,0.2
Ashkenazi_Jew,0.2
BedouinB,0.2
Belarusian,0.2
Berber_Tunisia_Sen,0.2
Bosnian,0.2
Egyptian,0.2
French_Brittany,0.2
Georgian_Jew,0.2
Greek_Thessaly,0.2
Hungarian,0.2
Icelandic,0.2
Italian_Bergamo,0.2
Italian_Jew,0.2
Italian_Marche,0.2
Italian_Piedmont,0.2
Italian_Veneto,0.2
Karachay,0.2
Lebanese_Druze,0.2
Macedonian,0.2
Norwegian,0.2
Roma_Barcelona,0.2
Romanian,0.2
Saharawi,0.2
Scottish,0.2
Serbian,0.2
Sorb_Niederlausitz,0.2
Spanish_Valencia,0.2
Swiss_German,0.2
Syrian,0.2
Tajik,0.2
Talysh_Azerbaijan,0.2
Turkish_Trabzon,0.2
Welsh,0.2
Yemenite_Dhamar,0.2


Spanish_Mallorca:CAL026 (Vahaduo):
Distance to: Spanish_Mallorca:CAL026
0.02199682 Spanish_Penedes
0.02436318 Spanish_Barcelones
0.02446846 Spanish_Lleida
0.02454027 Spanish_Peri-Barcelona
0.02464058 Spanish_Girona
0.02466369 Spanish_Cataluna
0.02482048 Spanish_Alacant
0.02524158 Spanish_Eivissa
0.02528019 French_Provence
0.02570779 Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
0.02596303 Spanish_Catalunya_Central
0.02650786 French_Auvergne
0.02672489 Spanish_Pirineu
0.02693569 Spanish_Galicia
0.02700160 Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre
0.02724515 Swiss_French
0.02750289 Spanish_Valencia
0.02753866 Spanish_Castello
0.02770603 Spanish_Cantabria
0.02817820 French_Occitanie
0.02837239 Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
0.02849569 Spanish_Aragon
0.02867808 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon
0.02946220 Portuguese
0.02994904 Spanish_Andalucia

Target: Spanish_Mallorca:CAL026
Distance: 1.3611% / 0.01361121
36.6 Spanish_Pais_Vasco
13.6 French_Brittany
12.6 Spanish_Soria
9.2 Abkhasian
6.0 Sardinian
6.0 Spanish_Alacant
4.0 Russian_Smolensk
3.8 Shetlandic
3.6 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon
1.8 Swiss_Italian
1.0 Ju_hoan_North
1.0 North_Ossetian
0.4 Ethiopian_Ari
0.4 Georgian_Laz

Spanish_Mallorca:CAL026 (nMonte3):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Spanish_Penedes Spanish_Barcelones Spanish_Lleida
2.199682 2.436318 2.446846
Spanish_Peri-Barcelona Spanish_Girona Spanish_Cataluna
2.454027 2.464058 2.466369
Spanish_Alacant Spanish_Eivissa
2.482048 2.524158

[1] "2. FULL TABLE nMONTE"
[1] "penalty= 0.001"
[1] "Ncycles= 1000"

[...]

[1] "distance%=1.8667"

Spanish_Mallorca:CAL026

Spanish_Penedes,31.6
Spanish_Alacant,16.8
Spanish_Cataluna,10.2
Spanish_Barcelones,10
Spanish_Cantabria,3.2
Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon,2.4
Spanish_Pais_Vasco,2
Swiss_French,2
French_Brittany,1.2
Shetlandic,1.2
Spanish_Lleida,1
Swiss_German,1
Portuguese,0.8
Spanish_Eivissa,0.8
Basque_French,0.6
English,0.6
English_Cornwall,0.6
French_Paris,0.6
Italian_Aosta_Valley,0.6
Orcadian,0.6
Scottish,0.6
Avar,0.4
Dutch,0.4
French_Alsace,0.4
French_Provence,0.4
German,0.4
German_East,0.4
Greek_Trabzon,0.4
Ingrian,0.4
Italian_Liguria,0.4
Italian_Umbria,0.4
Spanish_Canarias,0.4
Welsh,0.4
Abazin,0.2
Azeri_Turkey,0.2
Belgian,0.2
Berber_Tunisia_Chen,0.2
Cossack_Kuban,0.2
Croatian,0.2
Finnish_East,0.2
French_Occitanie,0.2
Gagauz,0.2
Greek_Central_Anatolia,0.2
Greek_Crete,0.2
Icelandic,0.2
Italian_Calabria,0.2
Italian_Marche,0.2
Italian_Piedmont,0.2
Kabardin,0.2
Kaitag,0.2
Kumyk,0.2
Lebanese_Muslim,0.2
Macedonian,0.2
Masai,0.2
Norwegian,0.2
Roma_Balkans,0.2
Russian_Kostroma,0.2
Russian_Smolensk,0.2
Saami,0.2
Sicilian_West,0.2
Spanish_Peri-Barcelona,0.2
Spanish_Pirineu,0.2
Spanish_Soria,0.2
Syrian_Jew,0.2
Tatar_Mishar,0.2
Turkish_Kayseri,0.2
Turkish_North,0.2


Spanish_Mallorca:GRA135 (Vahaduo):
Distance to: Spanish_Mallorca:GRA135
0.02923704 Spanish_Girona
0.02954829 Spanish_Castello
0.02978200 Spanish_Alacant
0.02994584 Spanish_Peri-Barcelona
0.03005432 Spanish_Catalunya_Central
0.03065467 Spanish_Eivissa
0.03115939 Spanish_Penedes
0.03129645 Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
0.03165649 Spanish_La_Rioja
0.03181068 Spanish_Lleida
0.03211340 Spanish_Cataluna
0.03235675 French_Provence
0.03285614 Spanish_Pirineu
0.03293166 Spanish_Murcia
0.03368905 Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige
0.03383523 Italian_Veneto
0.03395015 Spanish_Valencia
0.03430442 Portuguese
0.03457453 Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha
0.03478424 Spanish_Galicia
0.03484257 Spanish_Barcelones
0.03492597 Swiss_French
0.03519741 Spanish_Terres_de_l'Ebre
0.03561226 Spanish_Cantabria
0.03567005 Spanish_Soria

Target: Spanish_Mallorca:GRA135
Distance: 1.6544% / 0.01654357
57.2 Spanish_La_Rioja
19.8 Montenegrin
9.8 Spanish_Soria
5.2 Kurdish
3.4 Sardinian
2.8 Shetlandic
1.4 Masai
0.4 Yakut

Spanish_Mallorca:GRA135 (nMonte3):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Spanish_Girona Spanish_Castello Spanish_Alacant
2.923704 2.954829 2.978200
Spanish_Peri-Barcelona Spanish_Catalunya_Central Spanish_Eivissa
2.994584 3.005432 3.065467
Spanish_Penedes Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona
3.115939 3.129645

[1] "2. FULL TABLE nMONTE"
[1] "penalty= 0.001"
[1] "Ncycles= 1000"

[...]

[1] "distance%=2.0005"

Spanish_Mallorca:GRA135

Spanish_La_Rioja,46.6
French_Provence,18
Spanish_Soria,11
Swiss_Italian,6
Italian_Veneto,5.4
Italian_Northeast,3.4
Swiss_French,1.2
Albanian,0.6
Greek_Izmir,0.6
Montenegrin,0.6
Bulgarian,0.4
Italian_Molise,0.4
Moroccan,0.4
Assyrian,0.2
Berber_MAR_ERR,0.2
Bosnian,0.2
Cossack_Kuban,0.2
Croatian,0.2
Ethiopian_Agaw,0.2
Greek_Peloponnese,0.2
Greek_Thessaly,0.2
Greek_Thrace,0.2
Iranian_Lor,0.2
Iraqi_Jew,0.2
Italian_Basilicata,0.2
Italian_Calabria,0.2
Italian_Campania,0.2
Italian_Jew,0.2
Italian_Lazio,0.2
Italian_Umbria,0.2
Kabardin,0.2
Lithuanian_PA,0.2
Lithuanian_SZ,0.2
Macedonian,0.2
Moldavian,0.2
Palestinian_Beit_Sahour,0.2
Saharawi,0.2
Serbian,0.2
Spanish_Alacant,0.2
Spanish_Girona,0.2

[Shadogowah]

I know FTDNA's "My Origins" is crappy but I bring it here as a reason why somebody with Iberian ancestry could show his/her doubts.

These are my results. My mother scores 6% in that "Eastern European" category whatever it means.

I remember other Spaniards in this forum sharing results and also having significant percentages.

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[Ruderico]

For what is worth in 23andme Eastern European is very rare in Iberians. I think the only Portuguese I have seen with some is..me. And I only get a residual and insignificant 0.4%

[oz]

My Heritage is sketchy with results but there were a good number of Slavs in medieval Spain as slaves, soldiers and eunuchs, called Saqaliba (just means Slavs).

As soldiers that I can believe, because we all know Slavs are the best soldiers in the world.

[Baltimore1937]

I have an ancient line or two to the early north Spain kingdoms. And, if you look at them, you will see a marriage to a Polish princess or etc. Maybe she brought her Polish entourage with her, who married into Spanish society.

[Noone]

That's interesting

[Bruzmi]

We know from recent ancient remain analysis that Visigoths (by the time they arrived to Spain) had a very important Balkan admixture. I think they could explain why Spaniards score a small but significant amount on categories associated to Balkan people.

But we also have the Saqalibah indeed as an explanation.

The Visigoths having intermingled with Balkan people can't have been the reason for this influx, as the Slavs arrive about 2 centuries later in the Balkans. It could have been an earlier event though or most probably it is related to the Saqalibah .

[Aspar]

The Visigoths having intermingled with Balkan people can't have been the reason for this influx, as the Slavs arrive about 2 centuries later in the Balkans. It could have been an earlier event though or most probably it is related to the Saqalibah .

This historical narrative can be only applied for the Southern Balkans and Greece, certainly not for whole of the Balkans(it also depends what you considered 'Balkans' in your post).
Otherwise, going by historical narrative we might get similar conclusion for the Albanians and the Vlachs as well just because the Greeks haven't recorded their presence before the 11-th century.

However, the Chernyakhov culture which is a culture defined by the Gothic presence but also Slavic and Geto-Dacian elements as well( "Matthews & Heather 1991, p. 88-92"), was present at the lower Bank of Danube and the Eastern part of modern Romanian Wallachia, parts which are considered as 'Balkans' by many etnographers and other scientists.

[Ibericus]

I never thought I'd live to see my old thread revive... I'm still trying to figure out what's this 'eastern pull' of mine. I do know that I have a Moroccan great-great grandmother (perhaps jewish?) but that may be too distant.

I have yet to find a Spaniard with more east_med than me. This is k13:

North_Atlantic 34.88 Pct
Baltic 11.37 Pct
West_Med 28.24 Pct
West_Asian -
East_Med 19.76 Pct
Red_Sea 2.95 Pct
South_Asian 0.05 Pct
East_Asian -
Siberian -
Amerindian 0.63 Pct
Oceanian -
Northeast_African 0.96 Pct
Sub-Saharan 1.11 Pct

These are my ancestor birthplaces on 23andme:

United States of America (206)
Mexico (82)
Spain (73)
Italy (28) (3 with 4 gp)
Cuba (27)
Poland (18) (2 with 4 gp)
Canada (15)
Russia (13) (2 with 4 gp)
Germany (11)
France (10)
Ukraine (10) (2 with 4 gp)
United Kingdom (10)
Brazil (9)
Colombia (9)
Guatemala (9)
Puerto Rico (9)
Romania (7)
Austria (6)
Ecuador (6)
Algeria (5) (1 with 4 gp)

[mokordo]

I never thought I'd live to see my old thread revive... I'm still trying to figure out what's this 'eastern pull' of mine. I do know that I have a Moroccan great-great grandmother (perhaps jewish?) but that may be too distant.

[/B]

Well, I am R1A-M417 , a pretty Slavic haplotype.:)

And all of my paternal great-grandparents were Andalusians.

[eastara]

Slavic in Spain could be a legacy of the Crusader States on the Balkans, which existed well after most of it was conquered by The Ottomans. After that all Western aristocracy and richer Greeks(suppose with their servants) were evacuated to Italy and possibly in Spain. For example the artist El Greco was from those people. There should be no dispute that the Greeks around that time were already admixed with Slavs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankokratia#:~:text=The%20Principality%20of%20Ach aea%20(1205,succeeded%20in%20conquering%20the%20Pr incipality.