Ancient population · Medieval

West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)

Name: West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey) (Turkey_WestByzantine)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_WestByzantine

West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_WestByzantine), with 11 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 480–1300 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey), Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey) and Imperial (Antiquity, Italy); the nearest living populations are Greek Dodecanese Rhodes, Greek Dodecanese and Cypriot.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (3), E1b and I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H, H14a, H80 and H87.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 480–1300 CE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: İznik-Basilica 40.14, 29.52
Sites: İznik-Basilica (5)
İznik-Yenişehirkapı (4)
Ilıpınar
Stratonikeia-West-Church
Samples: 11
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_WestByzantine
Turkey_WestByzantine_o1 outliers
Turkey_WestByzantine_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	Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Hellenistic`	1.46
2	Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Roman_5`	1.75
3	Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Imperial`	2.14
4	Turkey (Chalcolithic)`Turkey_C`	2.23
5	Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_IsolaSacra_RomanImperial`	2.27
6	Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_OldHittitePeriod`	2.34
7	Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)`C_Gordion_Anc`	2.40
8	Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2`	2.44
9	Rome Imperial (Antiquity)`Rome_Imperial`	2.46
10	Aegean Mugla Samantas Byzantine (Medieval)`Aegean_Mugla_Samantas_Byz`	2.50

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Greek Dodecanese Rhodes`Greek_Dodecanese_Rhodes`	2.06
2	Greek Dodecanese`Greek_Dodecanese`	2.42
3	Cypriot`Cypriot`	2.59
4	Greek Kos`Greek_Kos`	2.92
5	Greek Central Anatolia`Greek_Central_Anatolia`	3.35
6	Romaniote Jew`Romaniote_Jew`	3.54
7	Greek Crete`Greek_Crete`	3.65
8	Turkish Crete`Turkish_Crete`	3.71
9	Greek Crete Lasithi`Greek_Crete_Lasithi`	3.72
10	Greek Deep Mani`Greek_Deep_Mani`	3.77

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

E1b1b1a1b1 E-Y30977
I2a1b1a2a2a2 I-Y5669
J2a1a1a2b2a2b2b J-Z6271
J2a1a1a2b2a3b J-Z7661
J2a1a1a2b2a3b1b J-PH1244

mtDNA

11 individuals with a call

Individuals 13

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
`I10546`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	M	600-800 CE	Ilıpınar	I2a1b1a2a2a2 I-Y5669	J1c10
`I14833`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	M	400-700 CE	İznik-Yenişehirkapı	J2a1a1a2b2a3b1b J-PH1244	H14a
`I14839`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	F	426-541 calCE	İznik-Yenişehirkapı		U1a1a3
`I14842`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	F	400-700 CE	İznik-Yenişehirkapı		H87
`I14843`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	M	400-700 CE	İznik-Yenişehirkapı	J2a1a1a2b2a2b2b J-Z6271	T2a3
`I19539`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	F	1200-1400 CE	Stratonikeia-West-Church		J2b
`I8366`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	M	500-700 CE	İznik-Basilica	E1b1b1a1b1 E-Y30977	T2g1
`I8368`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	F	500-700 CE	İznik-Basilica		HV1a'b'c
`I8370`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	M	500-700 CE	İznik-Basilica	J2a1a1a2b2a3b J-Z7661	H
`I8371`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	F	500-700 CE	İznik-Basilica		X2n
`I8373`	`Turkey_WestByzantine`	F	500-700 CE	İznik-Basilica		H80
`I10429` outlier	`Turkey_WestByzantine_o1`	F	600-800 CE	Ilıpınar		K1a1
`I14840` outlier	`Turkey_WestByzantine_oEuropean`	F	411-538 calCE	İznik-Yenişehirkapı		H8c