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From: "Steven Bird" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Gauls and Galacia in Turkey (was mtDNA H2a phylogeny)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:08:01 -0400
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Dora wrote:


>
> >First of all, from where are you getting the idea that a branch of H2a2
> >identifies a tribe of GAels, or that it travelled from Gaul to Galacia
>to
> >Turkey?

Just to clarify, the Celtic (Gallic) people who founded Galacia in Turkey
came from east central Europe, not "French" Gaul. They were part of a
massive invasion of the Balkans by the Celts in 279 B.C. Most of the
invasion force was eventually repulsed, but a portion broke off and moved
eastward across the Bosporus to enter Anatolia (Turkey). They ended up in
the region now called Galacia. They had nothing to do with the Gauls found
in what is now France.

Steve

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