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You may be right about rapes as cause of gene mixing in Austria but Janissaries were not Turkish so we’re not originally from Anatolia. They consisted of boys e
by Jun8 3y ago
You may be right about rapes as cause of gene mixing in Austria but Janissaries were not Turkish so we’re not originally from Anatolia. They consisted of boys enslaved from mostly Eastern Europe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary#:~:text=Janissaries%20began%20as%20elite%20corps,incorporated%20into%20the%20Ottoman%20army https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary#:~:text=Janissarie.... They were the elite corps so the Ottoman army consisted of many other troops who did come from Anatolia.
- joeyo 3y agoThe Ottomans were also not originally from Anatolia ...
- Tagbert 3y agoDo you mean Turkish speakers? It is true the Turkish is part of a group of languages from Central Asia that would not have been present in Anatolia 5000 years ago.
- madaxe_again 3y agoRight. However those boys typically had Anatolian ancestry for the same aforementioned reasons - mine appears to have come via west Africa, and for a kid who’s neither us nor them, being a slave mercenary is a decent alternative.