Ancient population · Medieval

Islamic Zira (Medieval, Spain)

Name: Islamic Zira (Medieval, Spain) (Spain_Islamic_Zira)
Creator: Genoplot

Spain_Islamic_Zira

Islamic Zira (Medieval, Spain) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spain_Islamic_Zira), with 2 samples from Spain, dated to c. 1050 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Nazari Period Muslim (Spain), Monte Da Nora Late Roman (Antiquity, Portugal) and Visigoth Granada (Medieval, Spain); the nearest living populations are Belmonte Jew, Spanish Canarias and Sicilian West.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H3a and H5.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 1050 CE
Country: Spain
Sampled near: Cueva Romero 37.81, -2.54
Samples: 2
Published in: OlaldeReichScience2019
Catalogue: Spain_Islamic_Zira

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Nazari Period Muslim (Spain)`Spain_NazariPeriod_Muslim`	2.24
2	Monte Da Nora Late Roman (Antiquity, Portugal)`Portugal_MonteDaNora_LateRoman`	2.41
3	Visigoth Granada (Medieval, Spain)`Spain_Visigoth_Granada`	2.94
4	Ibiza Punic (Iron Age)`Ibiza_Punic`	3.24
5	Iberia Ibiza Punic (Iron Age)`Iberia_Ibiza_Punic`	3.59
6	Roman (Antiquity, Spain)`Spain_Roman`	3.69
7	Islamic (Medieval, Spain)`Spain_Islamic`	3.95
8	Islamic Almohade (Medieval, Spain)`Spain_Islamic_Almohade`	3.99
9	Zapateria Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_Zapateria_Argar`	4.19
10	Foggia (Medieval)`Foggia_MA`	4.19

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	3.06
2	Spanish Canarias`Spanish_Canarias`	3.62
3	Sicilian West`Sicilian_West`	3.68
4	Maltese`Maltese`	3.76
5	Ashkenazi Ukraine`Ashkenazi_Ukraine`	4.41
6	Ashkenazi Poland`Ashkenazi_Poland`	4.58
7	Ashkenazi Russia`Ashkenazi_Russia`	4.59
8	Ashkenazi Belarussia`Ashkenazi_Belarussia`	4.64
9	Sicilian East`Sicilian_East`	4.69
10	Ashkenazi Austria`Ashkenazi_Austria`	4.70

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

E1b1b1a1b1 E-BY3880

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H3a1
H5

Individuals 2

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I7498`	M	1000-1100 CE	Cueva Romero	E1b1b1a1b1 E-BY3880	H3a1
`I7499`	F	1000-1100 CE	Cueva Romero		H5