Ancient population · Medieval

Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)

Name: Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey) (Turkey_Byzantine)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_Byzantine

Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Byzantine), with 9 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 1100–1300 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy), Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey) and Rome Imperial (Antiquity); the nearest living populations are Greek Kos, Greek Dodecanese Rhodes and Cypriot.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (2), R1b (2) and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H14a, H5f, H7b and H7c.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 1100–1300 CE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Stratonikeia-West-Church 37.31, 28.06
Sites: Stratonikeia-West-Church (8)
Stratonikeia-and-Lagina
Samples: 9
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_Byzantine
Turkey_Byzantine_oAfrica outliers
Turkey_Byzantine_oEuropean 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
#	Population	Distance
1	Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_IsolaSacra_RomanImperial`	1.30
2	Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2`	1.38
3	Rome Imperial (Antiquity)`Rome_Imperial`	1.71
4	Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Imperial`	1.76
5	Aegean Mugla Stratonikeia Byzantine (Medieval)`Aegean_Mugla_Stratonikeia_Byz`	2.00
6	Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Hellenistic`	2.08
7	Ottoman (Turkey) · Turkey_Ottoman`Turkey_Ottoman`	2.15
8	Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)`C_Gordion_Anc`	2.24
9	Roman (Antiquity, Greece)`Greece_Roman`	2.46
10	Roman 4 (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Roman_4`	2.57

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Greek Kos`Greek_Kos`	1.43
2	Greek Dodecanese Rhodes`Greek_Dodecanese_Rhodes`	1.65
3	Cypriot`Cypriot`	1.71
4	Greek Dodecanese`Greek_Dodecanese`	1.72
5	Greek Cyclades Amorgos`Greek_Cyclades_Amorgos`	2.42
6	Greek Crete`Greek_Crete`	2.73
7	Romaniote Jew`Romaniote_Jew`	2.74
8	Turkish Crete`Turkish_Crete`	2.91
9	Greek Crete Lasithi`Greek_Crete_Lasithi`	2.92
10	Greek Central Anatolia`Greek_Central_Anatolia`	3.02

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

G2a2b1a2a G-Y138065
J2a1a1b2a1b1 J-L70
J2a1a1b2a1b2b1c J-Z43041
R1b1a1b1a R-FGC24138
R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b3 R-Y28596
T1a2 T-FGC23008

mtDNA

9 individuals with a call

Individuals 12

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I20141`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	M	1000-1200 CE	Stratonikeia-and-Lagina	R1b1a1b1a R-FGC24138	X2e1a
`I20142`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	F	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church		H14a
`I20143`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	M	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church	T1a2 T-FGC23008	J1b3b1
`I20144`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	M	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church	J2a1a1b2a1b1 J-L70	H5f
`I20145`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	F	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church		HV7
`I20146`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	M	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church	G2a2b1a2a G-Y138065	H7b1
`I20147`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	M	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church	R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b3 R-Y28596	R0a
`I20187`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	M	1271-1378 calCE	Stratonikeia-West-Church	J2a1a1b2a1b2b1c J-Z43041	U7a4a1
`I20574`	`Turkey_Byzantine`	F	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church		H7c1
`I10430` outlier	`Turkey_Byzantine_oEuropean`	M	679-823 calCE	Ilıpınar	I2a1a2b1a1 I-Y3120	W6
`I8369` outlier	`Turkey_Byzantine_oAfrica`	F	500-700 CE	İznik-Basilica		U8b1a1
`I8372` outlier	`Turkey_Byzantine_oAfrica`	F	262-425 calCE	İznik-Basilica		U6a7c1