Talk:Thracomania

Relevant quote

I came across a very relevant quote by Raymond Detrez:

“”But since Bulgarian blood is 16 or 18% Thracian, as the Academician Anton Donchev said to the Dutch at the Hague, then why would Macedonian blood not contain at least the same percent of blood from the veins of Alexander the Great? It's exactly the same type of "continuity". Why should the Macedonian obsession with the Ancient Macedonians be more ridiculous than Bulgarian Thracomania or the cult of the Bulgars (the part of their blood that's in contemporary Bulgarians has also been given a measurement that is just as precise, but I forget what it is), the "founders of 12 countries"? Original in Bulgarian: Но щом българската кръв съдържала 16 или 18% тракийска кръв, както академик Антон Дончев разправял преди няколко месеца в Хага на холандците, защо тогава македонската кръв да не съдържа поне такъв процент от кръвта, текла във вените на Александър Велики? Става дума за абсолютно същия вид ‛континуитет‛. Защо македонската обсесия с античните македонци да е по-смешна от българската тракомания или пък от култа към прабългарите (делът на тяхната кръв във вените на съвременните българи е изчислен със същата прецизност, но забравих колко е), те пък ‛създатели на дванайсет държави‛.

I would say this also applies to Dacians/Romanians, Hungarians/Huns, etc.--Кřěĵ (ṫåɬк) 12:34, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Sounds pretty hilarious. Does this mean that I am descended from Gaius Julius Civilis or from the guys that ambushed Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Teutoburger Wald? JorisEnter (talk) 12:52, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Given that they lived so long ago, most probably yes. But then so are millions of people from lots of countries/ethnic groups — like (probably) me.--Кřěĵ (ṫåɬк) 13:19, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

I think we have all encountered in real life the 'energy vampires' mentioned. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:52, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Links

For reference: forum post blog post--Кřěĵ (ṫåɬк) 08:13, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Genetics

Cardos, G., Stoian V., Miritoiu N., Comsa A., Kroll A., Voss S., Rodewald A., p. 246. "Computing the frequency of common point mutations of the present-day European population with the Thracian population has resulted that the Italian (7.9 %), the Alban (6.3 %) and the Greek (5.8 %) have shown a bias of closer genetic kinship with the Thracian individuals than the Romanian and Bulgarian individuals (only 4.2%)." The Italians have more genetically to do with Thracians than Romanians and Bulgarians.^{— Unsigned, by: [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] / [[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] / [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]]}

I'll blame Spartacus for that. Flannan Isle (talk) 10:11, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

This used unclear random samples. The Thracians, like other Indo-European Balkan peoples, were largely separated with more "peasant" stock being of Mediterranean type while nobility was found to have a more northerly derived genetic component from the northeast Europe/steppe region.Userius (talk) 00:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)