Dacians 9 samples 23andme format

The Dacians were an ancient Indo-European people who inhabited a region broadly corresponding to modern-day Romania and Moldova, as well as parts of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary. They were part of the larger Thracian cultural sphere but developed a distinct identity by the first millennium BCE. The Dacians are believed to have emerged from a blend of local Neolithic and Bronze Age populations with Indo-European-speaking migrants during the late Bronze Age. Their society was tribal yet sophisticated, known for fortified hilltop settlements called davae, advanced metallurgy, and a polytheistic religion with a strong emphasis on the worship of Zalmoxis, a deity associated with immortality.

The Dacians are most famously remembered for their intense and prolonged interactions with the Roman Empire. Under the leadership of King Burebista in the 1st century BCE, Dacia became a powerful and centralized kingdom that briefly rivaled Rome's regional influence. Later, King Decebalus became the central figure in the Dacian Wars against Rome, resisting Emperor Domitian and then Emperor Trajan in the early 2nd century CE. Despite strong resistance and some initial victories, Dacia was ultimately defeated in 106 CE after Trajan’s second campaign. The region was annexed as the Roman province of Dacia, and Roman colonization introduced Latin culture and language, laying the foundations for modern Romanian identity.

After Roman control weakened in the 3rd century CE, the region saw increasing pressure from migrating groups. By the 4th and 5th centuries, the Huns began to dominate the Pannonian Basin (modern-day Hungary), which had once been part of the Dacian sphere.

For this video, I gathered 9 dacians from eastern hungary dating to 4th century CE.

These samples plot with modern balkanites, such as Bulgarians, Albanians and Croats. Here’s an Fst run I did on this population using admixtools 2 vs the results of their simulated G25 coordinates.

QpAdm analysis revealed that they descend from a mixture of Thracians with local Eastern european nomads. Another qpAdm run revealed that the Dacians of hungary had a significant portion of steppe ancestry, comparable to some Northern European nations.

I ran their genomes through my Trait Predictor tool for DNA analysis.