Ancient population · Medieval

Bulgaria (Medieval)

Bulgaria_Medieval

Bulgaria (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_Medieval), with 2 samples from Bulgaria, dated to c. 1130–1150 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Erfurt2 (Medieval), North Hungary Mountains Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary) and Mid Avar (Medieval, Hungary); the nearest living populations are Turkish North Macedonia, Gagauz and Pomak Almopia Plain.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include U2e and U5b.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1130–1150 CE
Country
Bulgaria
Sampled near
Ryahovets 43.13, 25.65
Samples
2
Catalogue
Bulgaria_Medieval
Bulgaria_Medieval_oEastAsia outliers

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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Erfurt2 (Medieval)MA_Erfurt23.22
2North Hungary Mountains Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_NorthHungaryMountains_LAvar3.33
3Mid Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_MidAvar3.39
4Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)Scythian_MDA3.64
5Bulgaria (Early Bronze Age–Middle Bronze Age)Bulgaria_EBA_MBA3.73
6Glinoe Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)Moldova_Glinoe_Scythian3.80
7ACD Nordic (Medieval)MA_ACD_Nordic3.84
8Serbia (Late Bronze Age)Serbia_LBA3.94
9Emona Roman (Antiquity, Slovenia)Slovenia_Emona_Roman3.99
10Transtisza Roman Sarmation (Antiquity, Hungary)Hungary_Transtisza_Roman_Sarmation4.09
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Turkish North MacedoniaTurkish_North_Macedonia2.05
2GagauzGagauz2.19
3Pomak Almopia PlainPomak_Almopia_Plain2.23
4Pomak Tikves PlainPomak_Tikves_Plain2.36
5Pomak Rhodope MountainsPomak_Rhodope_Mountains2.44
6Rumelia EastRumelia_East2.51
7Pomak Danubian PlainPomak_Danubian_Plain2.62
8BulgarianBulgarian2.67
9Greek Central MacedoniaGreek_Central_Macedonia2.82
10Greek East Macedonia and ThraceGreek_East_Macedonia_and_Thrace2.88

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I10548Bulgaria_MedievalF1000-1250 CERyahovetsU5b1b
I17980Bulgaria_MedievalF1051-1217 calCERyahovetsU2e2a1a
I2525 outlierBulgaria_Medieval_oEastAsiaM889-989 calCESamovodeneQ1a2a1 Q-YP844U5a1b1c