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Turkish East

Turkish_East

Turkish East is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkish_East), with 8 samples from Van, Turkey.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Armenia (Early Medieval), Hasanlu (Iron Age) and Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Azerbaijani Republic Shaki, Alevi Dersim and Turkish Erzurum.

Period
Ancient
Country
Turkey
Origin
Van, Turkey
Samples
8
Catalogue
Turkish_East

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
1Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval2.88
2Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA2.91
3Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic2.94
4Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_IA2.98
5Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian3.81
6Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age)Hasanlu_MBA3.85
7Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor3.94
8Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible3.96
9Areni (Chalcolithic, Armenia)Armenia_C_Areni3.96
10Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_LateHellenistic4.08
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki1.53
2Alevi DersimAlevi_Dersim1.98
3Turkish ErzurumTurkish_Erzurum2.05
4Azerbaijani Republic GabalaAzerbaijani_Republic_Gabala2.10
5Kurd Kurmanji TurkeyKurd_Kurmanji_Turkey2.18
6Kurd Zaza TurkeyKurd_Zaza_Turkey2.22
7UdiUdi2.39
8Kurd SyriaKurd_Syria2.44
9Talysh AzerbaijanTalysh_Azerbaijan2.52
10AzeriAzeri2.65

Individuals 8

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleOrigin
Turkish_East1Van, Turkey
Turkish_East2Van, Turkey
Turkish_East3Van, Turkey
Turkish_East4Van, Turkey
Turkish_East5Van, Turkey
Turkish_East6Van, Turkey
Turkish_East7Van, Turkey
Turkish_East8Van, Turkey