Barbarian kingdoms

Kingdoms established by barbarian tribes in the former Western Roman Empire

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2021
Khazars
A genetic study revealed the Khazar nobility had mixed genetic origins, with Y-chromosome data showing a combination of European and East Asian paternal haplogroups (R1a, C2b, G2a, N1a, Q, and R1b).
2019
Khazars
Genetic study confirmed the Turkic roots of the Khazars while highlighting their ethnic diversity and integration of conquered populations through analysis of nine skeletons from elite military burial mounds in the Rostov region.
2012
Khazars
Geneticist Eran Elhaik argued for a significant Khazar component in the genetic admixture of Ashkenazi Jews.

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