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Macedonian DNA Evolution (400 BC—2026) The ancient sample dates to around 400 BC, during the Classical period in the central Balkans. Its closest modern matches include Lombards from northern Italy, people from Brescia and Val Borbera, Emilians, Aromanians from Greece, Tuscans, Bergamo Lombards, Albanian Ghegs, Ligurians from Carloforte, and Corsicans. This places the ancient sample within a broader southern European genetic space spanning the Balkans and northern-central Italy. Its ancestral profile is 65.1% Anatolian Neolithic Farmer, 34.1% Western Steppe Herder, and 0.8% Western Hunter-Gatherer. The heatmap shows its strongest affinities across the northern Balkans, northern and central Italy, and surrounding parts of southeastern Europe. Modern Macedonians are closest to Macedonians from Florina in Greece, Greeks from Western Macedonia, Albanian Ghegs from Montenegro, Greeks from Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Moldovans from Ștefan Vodă, Greeks from Macedonia, Balkan Turks, Bulgarians, Pomaks from Greece, and Albanian Ghegs from Kosovo. Compared with the ancient sample, modern Macedonians show less Anatolian Neolithic Farmer ancestry at 53.5% and more Western Steppe Herder ancestry at 40.2%, alongside 3.1% Western Hunter-Gatherer and 3.1% Levantine Neolithic Farmer ancestry. Their heatmap shifts more clearly toward the central and eastern Balkans. Overall, the comparison suggests substantial Balkan continuity, but also a noticeable northward and eastern genetic shift since the Classical period, consistent with later population movements that reshaped the ancestry of the central Balkans.

The Macedonian profile sits in the central Balkan genetic zone, with its closest matches clustering around Macedonian, Greek, Bulgarian, Albanian, Moldovan, Pomak, and Balkan Turkish populations. Its closest modern matches include Macedonian Greece Florina, Greek Western Macedonia, Greek Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Moldovan Stefan Voda, Pomak Greece, Turkish Balkans, Greek Macedonia, Albanian Gheg Montenegro, Albanian Gheg Kosovo, and Torbesi North Macedonia. This reflects a strongly Balkan profile, centered around Macedonia and neighboring populations. The ancestry breakdown is led by Anatolian Neolithic Farmer (53.6%), followed by Western Steppe Herder (40.2%), Western Hunter-Gatherer (3.1%), Levantine Neolithic Farmer (2.8%), and East Asian (0.3%). The heatmap peaks across North Macedonia, northern Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, and the wider central Balkans.

🎯 КУБРАТИСТИ посетиха мястото, на което през 1896 г. Гоце Делчев основава комитет на ВМОРО. 🔥 През лятото на същата година в с. Добринище ВМОРО поставя началото на своята дейност. 📌 Ръководител на комитета става Иван Попов - Деницин. Комитетската мрежа е изключително гъста в Пиринска Македония, а Добринище е едно от основните звена наред с Разлог, Банско, Горна Джумая, Якоруда и селата около тях. ✅ Между 1928 и 1934 г. Добринище на практика е управлявано от ВМРО на Иван Михайлов. По това време са изградени училище, читалище и църква в селото. ⬜ Плочата от снимката е на 11 км от Добринище, непосредствено зад хижа "Гоце Делчев". 🇧🇬 Помнете героите! Пазете историята! ⬜🟩🟥⬛

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