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Can a Hungarian speaker explain how they do not confuse Becs (Vienna) and Pecs (city in Southern Hungary). Surely too similar to a lot of ears and likely to cause confusion. Is there some other name substituted in to disambiguate either of these in spoken conversation?

Doesn't matter how old the haplogroups are if they were stagnant for the bulk of that time, or moving slowly. The domestication of the horse changed everything and that only happened perhaps 5000 years ago.

R1a being Turkic makes little sense considering how widespread it is (from Poland to India in large frequencies). Obviously it is Slavo-Iranic hence its linguistic consistency with Satem languages, not to mention affinity with Kentum languages and peoples (R1b). Clearly the Kirgiz males are the...

Interestingly, the country of Kosovo is named after this black bird concept. On another note, you should have included "Black Pete" in the thread title so we know what the thread is about. This is an English language forum.

Why is the Road to Damascus nowadays populated mostly by Muslims? Too many jay-walkers.

The "Oranje" wore yellow. If that isn't a bad omen I don't know what is. It was a dark yellow but still.

Black Cat White Cat. Very Entertaining film by Emir Kusturica. Gypsies, Bulgarian crooks and a Serbian beauty who is to be married off.

England or Brazil is my prediction.

Judaism is just a religion, by definition. What you seem to want to get at is Jewishness. Of course there is a big overlap between the ethnic component and the religious one, but the terms should not be confused. To answer the OP's question, talking about religious affiliation is more simple...

Yes, thank you for your ugly use of bold text again. A pity your diction and spelling is awful. Not sure what the point of your post was. The Hanseatic League spoke Germanic. Ultimately not about politics anyway but language. The term is way older than the 12th century, it existed in Old Norse...

Someone asked earlier about he term "Wends"... I think this was a Germanic word for any foreigner, hence it was applied to both Slavs and Balts. Even Finns might have gotten their exonym from this term. On the other hand, it might have originally been an endonym used by Aryans. After all, I...

Well it must be true because we already know that Bosnians look more caveman-like in physiognomy than the Irish or English. But yes, I am saying that even within-population the effect holds true, even if just by autosomal echo.

Dear Angela and the person that that liked your comment. I never said that Y-DNA determines physically appearance. Nor did I suggest that it isn't the totality of DNA. God spare me from non-sequitors. I am however suggesting that autosomal DNA is not entirely spurious from the Y-DNA it is...

I totally could see Stephen King being of non-R1b heritage, just based on physiognomy. He has that look that I can only describe as Neanderthalic, a bit more caveman-like for lack of a better term. Obviously IJ is the ancestor of both Semites and proto-Europeans. I see this ruggedness in...

The surnames Gul and Kul are strongly present in Asia. Could they be linked to ancient Celts/Galli? Turkey's president before Erdogan was Abdullah Gul. Also plenty of Afghans and Pakis with that surname. Then you have it among Tatars as well. The famous Crazy Russian Hacker Youtube guy is...

I simply have to admire the confidence with which you assert your claims. What self-appointed expertise you wield. You can stop using bold font and repetitiveness in your text, I have no problems understanding your argument. Ligurians and Etruscans have nothing to do with Illyria, but I can see...

Wow, can't remember the last time someone called me silly, and in bold text too... thanks for that, it made me chuckle at what poor etiquette you have. Arguing which groups among the Iapodes, Liburnians, Histrians and Delmatoi should be considered Illyrian and which should not is frivolous. I'm...

Wow, so many threads on the Albanian language... One interesting fact I learned is that the name Dalmatia is almost certainly linked etymologically to the Albanian word for sheep: "delmja." That tells me that the lost Illyrian language was probably ancient Albanian. There are only a handful of...

Byzantium, Xanadu or Carthage.

If my memory serves correctly, there were claims that skeletons of giants were found on the island of Sardinia (also high in I2). It was a documetary on YouTube.