Novinite reported that pioneering DNA research covering Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Albania and Greece led to startling discoveries about the genetic structure of the Balkan population, Mandiner wrote .
The Romanian genome is 50-60 percent of Slavic origin, similar to its Balkan neighbors, Bulgaria and Croatia, the comprehensive study revealed.
The newspaper added that the research carried out in collaboration with Serbian, Spanish and American scientists sheds light on the prevalence of Slavic genes in the region.
According to the results reported by the Serbian agency Tanjug, Bulgarians, Romanians and Croatians have the highest concentration of Slavic genes. In contrast, Greeks have the lowest presence of this genetic inheritance: it ranges between 4 and 20 percent, they wrote.
All of this may be unpleasant for the Romanians, because for decades they have been promoting the Dacian-Romanian theory, which is a theory based on the kinship of the Romanian and Latin languages. According to this, Transylvanian Romanians are the descendants of the inhabitants of former Roman Dacia, the Romanized Dacians and Roman settlers, so they would be the original inhabitants of Transylvania.
Cover photo: Romanians who forcibly entered the Úzvölgy military cemetery on June 6, 2019. In the cemetery, the Romanian monument and plot, which was erected in violation of the law, were consecrated in an Orthodox ceremony. Photo: MTI/Nándor Veres.
