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Pasture names with Romance and Slavic roots facilitate dissection of Y chromosome variation in an exclusively German-speaking alpine region.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Niederstätter Harald, Rampl Gerhard, Erhart Daniel, Pitterl Florian, Oberacher Herbert, Neuhuber Franz, Hausner Isolde, Gassner Christoph, Schennach Harald, Berger Burkhard, Parson Walther
Abstract excerpt
The small alpine district of East Tyrol (Austria) has an exceptional demographic history. It was contemporaneously inhabited by members of the Romance, the Slavic and the Germanic language groups for centuries. Since the Late Middle Ages, however, the population of the principally agrarian-oriented area is solely Germanic speaking. Historic facts about East Tyrol's colonization are rare, but spatial...
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