Ancient population · Medieval
Albania (Medieval) · ALB_MA
ALB_MA
Albania (Medieval) · ALB_MA is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (ALB_MA), with 1 sample from Korçë, Albania, dated to c. 1420 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age), Macedonia (Iron Age) and Logkas (Middle Bronze Age, Greece); the nearest living populations are Greek Thessaly, Italian Tuscany and Italian Emilia.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is J1c.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- c. 1420 CE
- Country
- Albania
- Origin
- Korçë, Albania
- Sampled near
- Barç 40.63, 20.80
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- OlaldeReichCell2023
- Catalogue
ALB_MA
Nearest populations
Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age)Albania_BA_IA | 2.44 |
| 2 | Macedonia (Iron Age)Macedonia_IA | 2.60 |
| 3 | Logkas (Middle Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Logkas_MBA | 2.64 |
| 4 | Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Montenegro_MLBA | 2.65 |
| 5 | Cetina (Middle Bronze Age, Croatia)Croatia_MBA_Cetina | 2.83 |
| 6 | Croatia (Bronze Age)Croatia_BA | 2.84 |
| 7 | Macedonia (Bronze Age)Macedonia_BA | 2.91 |
| 8 | EMedieval Alemanic SEurope (Medieval, Germany)Germany_EMedieval_Alemanic_SEurope | 2.95 |
| 9 | Proto-Villanovan (Italy)ITA_Proto-Villanovan | 3.07 |
| 10 | Croatia (Iron Age)HRV_IA | 3.18 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greek ThessalyGreek_Thessaly | 3.00 |
| 2 | Italian TuscanyItalian_Tuscany | 3.05 |
| 3 | Italian EmiliaItalian_Emilia | 3.25 |
| 4 | Italian PiedmontItalian_Piedmont | 3.27 |
| 5 | AlbanianAlbanian | 3.28 |
| 6 | Italian LombardyItalian_Lombardy | 3.36 |
| 7 | Swiss ItalianSwiss_Italian | 3.57 |
| 8 | Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria | 3.57 |
| 9 | Greek MacedoniaGreek_Macedonia | 3.58 |
| 10 | Greek ArgolisGreek_Argolis | 3.59 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.