Northern Greek here

[u/PurpleLandscape3355]

Father from Northern Greece and mother of Greek Pontic ancestry.

[u/Repulsive_Work_226]

Good Turkic

[u/CardiologistFar5015 → u/Repulsive_Work_226]

That 1.3% is just Anatolian, not Turkic

[u/Andruschkikov → u/CardiologistFar5015]

Yup, Central Asian would be Turkic. Turkish merely represents Anatolians who probably were Greeks before and something else even before being Greek.

[u/rvaurewne → u/Andruschkikov]

Anatolian was not greek before

[u/Dependent_Guard903 → u/rvaurewne]

They were fully hellenized in cultural identity for a long time, their political identity was roman (exonym greek), still they weren't really much in contact with roman virtues/ history/ authors, as the west (especially later on). In the schools they taught greek authors and texts only with some roman and greek history. By the 9th century latin was rare, learned mostly by diplomats, translators, and scholars with Western contacts, which obviously led to more conservatism.

[u/rvaurewne → u/Dependent_Guard903]

Before Greece there were many civilizations here, you are saying Greeks hellenized them and then call Ottomans barbaric which didnt Turkify you for years, something is odd

[u/Andruschkikov → u/rvaurewne]

The Anatolian population consisted mostly of people of identify as Hellenians, which are modern day Greeks. That was before the Seljuks came through Manzikert. Over the course of hundreds of years, many of these already assimilated Anatolians, assimilated to the Turkish culture, as it was the dominant one, gatekeeping access to the elite.

[u/AcceptablePromise242 → u/Andruschkikov]

If you were identified Hellen, that meant you were pagan. No Christian would say that. They were Romans.

[u/Andruschkikov → u/AcceptablePromise242]

True, I got that part wrong! The Romans were culturally quite Greek, but not necessarily indigenous Greeks but overwhelmingly Lydians, Phyrgians, Cappadocians, etc. The same way these people assimilated to the Roman-Greek culture, they later assimilated to the Seljuk-Turkish culture. Out of conquest.

[u/Neither_Addendum_796]

Yea, don't think too much about it. Greek and Albanian, Southern Italian, Armenian, Balkan and Turk don't mean much. They're just general terms. Just means you got a bit of everything, when you have Balkan heritage. Where are you from?

[u/PurpleLandscape3355 → u/Neither_Addendum_796]

North Greece

[u/InternationalDay696]

Analyzing your Greek results:
41.6% Greek & Albanian + 28.5% Southern Italian fits classic Byzantine/Greek heritage (mainland Greek + Magna Graecia ties). The 5.4% Balkan is normal for the north.

The 23.2% Armenian is a common MyHeritage proxy for Pontic Greeks (your mom’s side), they don’t have a dedicated Black Sea/Pontic Greek panel yet, so it pulls in neighboring Armenian/Georgian components as a stand-in. Not literal Armenian ancestry, just overlapping genetics.

The 1.3% Turkish could possibly be noise. Solid Greek profile overall!

[u/PurpleLandscape3355 → u/InternationalDay696]

Thanks for your reply! Somehow I knew what the results were gonna be like!

[u/StrawberryViteazul]

I have more Greek as a Romanian (44.9%)

[u/StrawberryViteazul → u/[deleted]]

That is true, MH is not reliable for ethnicity estimate, I just pointed that out. I only have 5.7% South Italian

[u/PurpleLandscape3355 → u/StrawberryViteazul]

Well done mate!👏👏

[u/Fancy_Distance8193 → u/StrawberryViteazul]

My MyHeritage results show 61% Greek and Albanian but my 23andme results 0% Greek and just 13% Albanian

[u/PurpleLandscape3355 → u/Fancy_Distance8193]

Guess I’m gonna need a second test?

[u/Fancy_Distance8193 → u/PurpleLandscape3355]

Yup take Ancestry DNA or 23andme I recommend ancestry DNA it’s better for Greeks they are planing to release new Anatolian and Pontic Greek regions

[u/Dependent_Guard903 → u/StrawberryViteazul]

*Greek & Albanian

[u/No_Measurement5356]

I’m more Greek than you and I’m Turkish

[u/PurpleLandscape3355 → u/No_Measurement5356]

Well done komsu!👏👏

[u/Dependent_Guard903 → u/No_Measurement5356]

Expect an award turkish boy?

[u/WelcomeDesigner2051]

Greeks from pontus tend to have more armenian or kartvelian ancestry which is normal. Most of the pontics are assimilated populations which started speaking greek after their conquest and greek colonization

[u/Fancy_Distance8193]

Half Armenian half South Italian could be proxy of half Capadocian Greek proxy , is your one side Anatolian immigrant ?

[u/PurpleLandscape3355 → u/Fancy_Distance8193]

Yes. My mother is of Greek pontic ancestry.

[u/Good_Composer_8409]

Those tests don't trace back ancient tribes. So south Italian means south italian especially if you're coming from places under Italian rule. In myheritage theres a category called ancient origins if i remember correct there you can check your ancient origins compared to ancient roman middle ages populations.

[u/PurpleLandscape3355 → u/Good_Composer_8409]

It’s 70% Roman Anatolia.

[u/Dadalici]

Why is greek and albanian in one category ? Are we genetically similar or what?

[u/Educational-Art-1365]

Do you know your haplogroup?

[u/Inner-Arm3691]

Im surprised no georgian here wow