Anonymous
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7/24/2025, 3:58:19 PM No.511225942
It's time to put an end to this debate.
The gradient of North African ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula isn't South to North, as one would expect from the Muslim invasion, but West to East.
>Why is that?
Muslim forces did enter Iberia from the South. But over ~800 years of presence, their genetic influence became widespread across the entire peninsula.
During the Reconquista, two major demographic shifts occurred:
>The expulsion of Moors and Moor-admixed populations, particularly from urban centers and agricultural regions
>The settlement of Christian populations, especially from Northern Europe and the Pyrenees, who were granted land in reconquered areas
The expulsion of Moors uniformly reduced the Moorish admixture from 40% to <15% in the entire peninsula.
But northern settlers mostly settled in North-Eastern Iberia. They made North-Eastern Iberia very White, to the point of having little to no Moorish-admixture today, but they had a much lesser impact on Southern and Western Iberia.
This is reflected today in genetic studies: North-Eastern Spaniards are the Whitest people in the peninsula, but Galicians, Portuguese and Southern Spaniards still carry high levels of North African DNA.
The gradient of North African ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula isn't South to North, as one would expect from the Muslim invasion, but West to East.
>Why is that?
Muslim forces did enter Iberia from the South. But over ~800 years of presence, their genetic influence became widespread across the entire peninsula.
During the Reconquista, two major demographic shifts occurred:
>The expulsion of Moors and Moor-admixed populations, particularly from urban centers and agricultural regions
>The settlement of Christian populations, especially from Northern Europe and the Pyrenees, who were granted land in reconquered areas
The expulsion of Moors uniformly reduced the Moorish admixture from 40% to <15% in the entire peninsula.
But northern settlers mostly settled in North-Eastern Iberia. They made North-Eastern Iberia very White, to the point of having little to no Moorish-admixture today, but they had a much lesser impact on Southern and Western Iberia.
This is reflected today in genetic studies: North-Eastern Spaniards are the Whitest people in the peninsula, but Galicians, Portuguese and Southern Spaniards still carry high levels of North African DNA.
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