Anybody else enjoy learning about regions with unexpected demographics? Like Kalmykia, the Russian republic located in Europe with a majority Tibetan Buddhist population. Or the Crimean Goths.
Places with unusual/interesting demographics
Justin Richardson
Isaac Myers
the anglos of England. a rare species indeed. once the dominant race of the land it was outbred by the invading hordes of the middle east.
Dominic Davis
There's the Kaifeng Jews in China, and (though they've been gone for about 2,000 years now) the Indo-Greeks who once ruled northern India and Pakistan in the 1st century BC.
Jonathan James
en.wikipedia.org
The Kaifeng Jews are an interesting case because they may have been a hoax.
Matthew Murphy
I wish the Tocharians were still around. Freaking aryans in China. That's crazy.
Mason Howard
WE
Thomas Barnes
>Freaking aryans in China. That's crazy.
1. TOCHARIANS WERE TURANIAN, NOT ARYAN.
2. THERE WERE ARYANS IN WHAT IS NOW CHINA, BUT IT IS NOT REALLY "CRAZY".
Elijah Scott
It's been a long time, old one.
Xavier Ortiz
The Abereshe people of Italy
en.wikipedia.org
>They settled in Southern Italy between the 15th and 18th centuries in several waves of migration, following the death of the Albanian national hero George Kastrioti Skanderbeg and the gradual conquest of Albania and the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks.
Angel Nelson
There's a legend that the town of Gurro, in Italy is populated mostly by the descendants of Scottish soldiers who settled it after the battle of Pavia.
So they like to muh heritage.
Xavier Gomez
kek
Justin Brown
Dominic Moore
they surely don't look swarthy
Colton Turner
Found the Turk
Brody Gonzalez
Hazara in Afghanistan are direct descendants Genghis Khan's forces. Some elders still speak a dialect of Mongolian called Mogholi
Ryan Edwards
WIR
Joseph Clark
I looked up the town and its far north Italy. Not exactly Calabria.
Connor Hughes
there's a polish village in turkey
Jayden Nelson
They look on par with Lombards and other central Italian people.
Juan Roberts
Harbin in China was populated mainly by Russians and Europeans until about the 1960s.
Hudson King
australoids/veddoids in europe (gypsies)
Angel Bennett
>pasta-slurpin'
James Thomas
I thought they snipped the Janissaries?
Lucas Hill
In North-West Sardinia they speak a variance of Catalan as it was inhabited by sailors during the kingdom of Aragon.
Eli Rivera
Legend has it that surviving legionaries from Crassus's disastrous expedition against the Parthians got lost and ended up in China, where they founded a village.
Thomas Thompson
maltese semitic speakers.
moriscos in latinos
Jace Edwards
taiwanese in africa (malagasy) and chile (easter island)
Jose Barnes
I thought there was no evidence of that?