The site of the imperial Roman city of Viminacium, now in Serbia, contains the mausoleum of third-century CE Roman Emperor Herennius Etruscus and his mother Herennia. (Miodrag Grbic photo)
The site of the imperial Roman city of Viminacium, now in Serbia, contains the mausoleum of third-century CE Roman Emperor Herennius Etruscus and his mother Herennia. (Miodrag Grbic photo) A new multidisciplinary study reconstructs the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic change. The Balkan Peninsula is broadly defined as the region surrounded by the Adriatic, Aegean and Black Seas. Historically, this region was a bridge between Europe and Asia and the main migration and cultural exchange route that took place in the Danube valley in present-day Serbia. The region is significant because of the tremendous ethnolinguistic diversity of its residents, and the resulting political complexities affecting the modern countries in the region, including those emerging from the former Yugoslavia. However, the genetic history of this region before this study was little understood. The study was led by an international team including researchers at Western University, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (Spain), the University of Belgrade (Serbia), and Harvard University.
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