The Complete History of the Spanish DNA Story 

Hay dos apuntes que están erroneos, los celtas se expandieron desde la peninsula Ibérica hasta las islas Británicas y no al revés (estudio de Brian Sykes, universidad de Oxford) Segundo, el porcentaje de ADN moro no llega ni al 5% en la península debido a que no se casaban cristianos y musulmanes. Hay incluso más de judío y de nórdico. Estudio de la universidad de Oxford y de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, autor principal Clare Bycroft. Por otra parte en las distintas glaciaciones la península ibérica ha sido en refugio de Europa con un clima similar al de Dinamarca, frio pero habitable.

Let’s remember Spain has much diversity it’s not just flamencos and paellas

My god that’s completely false @0:14! Why do people push this myth? The people in the south of Spain descend from people from the north, as the Iberians reconquered the peninsula they settled northern Iberians south. Andalusians have no more “Arab” blood than anywhere else in Spain 0-2%.

Celtic people travelled from Spain to the British islands, as has been proven.

He makes it sound like Spaniards are more closely related to Middle Eastern people with a small amount of northern European DNA. I feel like he's totally disregarding the Sardinian component from the Earlier European Farmers and he's emphasizing the 5% of Morrish DNA found in the Spanish genome, which by the way does not represent individuals, it represents the entirety of the population, so there are individuals without any significant portion of Morrish DNA. They might have a half a percentage but I feel like he's emphasizing the Mediterranean component. In fact Spaniards and Portuguese tender cluster between Sardinians and French people, also a unique population is the basques, but I feel like this was a lesson in how they are not Western Europeans when in fact they are probably the most Western Europeans lol

Spanish were very handsome and beautiful people I like there lights eyes, their skin everything

There was never a mass influx of Italian settlers coming to Spain when it was incorporated into the Roman empire, as you state. Simply put, the vast majority of Hispania was inhabited by its original native, Romanized population.

I am Uruguayan, and I descend from Spanish settlers Andalusians, Extremadura, Canarians and Castellanos, I also descend from recent immigrants, my great-great-grandparents were Galician, Basque, Catalan and Asturian

I am half Spanish and Italian. 🇪🇦🇪🇦

God bless Spain ❤ 🇦🇷🤝🏻🇪🇸

I'm from spain and i have a lot of iberian dna, then french-germanic, celt, sardinian and italian.

The Celts lived all over Iberia and it is actually thought that the Iberians were actually Celts - the Visigoths started the Christian reconquest and resettlement with Catholics from western and central Europe - not to mention the re-population of southern Spain with catholic colonists from central Europe in places like La Carolina in Andalucia. Modern Spanish culture has its origins in the Romanized Visigothic culture there are a lot of lies told about Spain because people don't know the history of the North African moors who were expelled. Spain is one of the only countries in Europe that had to put up a fight to remain European and Christian.

I am PuertoRican and my grandparents on my dad 's side we came from the Canary Islands. And I have proved it with records of my ancestors. Of course it all started thru DNA test. I was always love history and genealogy. I knew because of all different groups that came into Spain is why we are mix and more now was that spread to the West but "I love your break down" in this video. Thank you!

I am Mexican but much of my ancestry is from Spain particularly the Basque country.

The average person Spain has zero North African ancestry

I'm 80% Iberian, 8% Welsh, 2% Scottish, 4% German, 3% French and 3% North African.

I’m from the USA, but my dad is Mexican with Spanish and indigenous Mexican ancestry and my mom is Salvadorean with Spanish and African ancestry, too.

Cool video but why not include Portugal and do the whole Iberian Península? We are basically the same people. Yes I am portuguese.

Mexican here and my ancestors came mainly from extremadura , la mancha , andalusia from my moms side my dad is from northern mexico most of his ancestors were basque , asturias cantabria and other parts of north castile and andalusian .. found a few ancestors from both sides that are from murcia , valencia , aragon , portugal and some with french last names and some with sephardic last names and even italian last names but they dont make up the majority and are only a small fraction compared to the rest of my ancestors .

The Spanish Christians rarely ever mixed with their Muslim invaders. 1-2% max DNA from N Africa. Thats it. Incredible to think considering the Iberians were occupied by the moors for HUNDREDS of years until La Reconquista of Spain was finished in 1492 in Granada. Talk about a tough and resilient people.

Im of Italo-Ibero descent with my dad being from Argentina and mom from Italy I did 23andMe im 70.5% Italian 24.1% Spanish and Portuguese 1.8% Coptic Egyptian 1.4% broadly Northwestern European 0.8% Broadly Southern European 0.4% indigenous America 0.4% broadly Arab Egyptian and Levantine 0.3% Ethiopian and Eritrean 0.3% Levantine My Italian ancestry is primarily from Campania also with ancestry from Molise Piemonte and Sicily My Spanish ancestry is from Valencia and Andalucia (I also have Spanish colonial ancestry from Argentina so I probably have ancestors from all over Spain but Valencia and Andalucia are recent from my great great grandparents) My Argentine ancestry is from corrientes

Todo el mundo debe saber, que en cada país cuentan la historia de forma diferente, esta es la historia que supongo que enseñan en los paises anglosajones que es diferente ha la historia que se estudia en España y diferente a la historia que se aprenden en Marruecos, por poner un ejemplo en Marruecos aprenden en los colegios que España es suya por que fueron espulsados de allí y estubieron en España durante 8 siglos.

I’m Cuban American and let me tell you that it seems to match the things you just mentioned,besides Spain I got Portuguese,basque,Irish and southern Italian with North Africa

I was born in Spain to Spanish parents. I can trace my family tree back to over six generations in the Castilla and Leon region. My surnames include Juarez, Moreno, Salvador, Valles, Bravo, Pozo, Alvarez, Marcos, De Rodrigo, De Villares, Montero, Rodriguez, Montalban and De Sanfrancisco. My ancestry DNA has the following results: 98% Spain 1% Basque 1% North African.

I'm assuming this is also valid for us Portuguese! Thanks! ❤🇨🇳🇮🇳🇲🇿🇦🇴🇬🇼🇸🇹🇨🇻🇲🇦🇵🇹🇧🇷

I’m Puerto Rican and mostly Spanish / Portugues / Native Taino / and other European (mostly Western, some Eastern) and Middle Eastern and various African nations. Basically we are mutts.

Interesting, I understand now why I got 5 % Scotland dna on my ancestry dna test results. I was born in Cuba and migrated with my parents to the US long time ago. To the best of my knowledge I have ancestors from Galicia and the Canary Islands. My ancestry dna test results were : 58 % Spain. 20 % Portugal. 6 % Indigenous Cuban. 5 % Scotland. 3 % Northern Italy. 3 % Northern Africa. 2 % Middle East. 2 % Sub Sahara Africa. 1 % Sardinia.

I’m Galician and have 35% hunter gather DNA on primitive testing. 55% Neolithic farmer. 10% steppe. I have tested negative for North African, Jewish, and Levantine autosomal DNA. I have 18% Irish DNA possibly Celtic related.

I'm Chicano (Mexican-American). Here are my results: • Indigenous American: 44.8% (Yaqui/Mayo and Yucatec Maya) • Spanish & Portuguese: 42.7% (Madrid and South Central Spain) • Broadly Southern European: 2.8% • Angolan & Congolese: 1.7% • Ashkenazi Jewish: 1.3% • Broadly Western Asian & North African: 1.1% • Unassigned: 1.1% • Senegambian & Guinean: 1.0% • Italian: 0.9% • Broadly European: 0.8% • Sardinian: 0.6% • Broadly Arab, Egyptian & Levantine: 0.3% • Broadly Sub-Saharan African: 0.3% • Coptic Egyptian: 0.3% • Peninsular Arab: 0.3% • Broadly East Asian & Indigenous American: 0.2%

Iberia is the first civilization

Ufff, it is a little bit more complicated. Firts: is true about hunter gatherners and anatolian but the first influence of indoeuropeans came 4500 years ago in the first wave of these people (arround 95% of Y chromosome is R1B among spanish men). After that came another waves of proto celtic and celtic peoples. Second: Roman influence is true, myself have more than a 20% of etruscan origins. Germanic invasions also true: aboiut 5 %. Moorish is very residual cause the islamic people from Spain was the original pople converted to Islam and the north african armies in this age were pretty small. The north african influence was minimal. Also, during Middle Age was common to bring colons from other parts of Europe.

I'm Iberian 57%, Celtic-Irish 21%, French 10%, English 5%, Italian 4%, Broad Western Europe 1%, Askenazi Jewish 0.9%, Sephardic Jewish 0.6% Others 0.5%. approx... No North African genetic trace in me.

Uh, why is the AI image for the Berber in the likeness of a SSA (negro) and not a Phoenician?

I love your videos. However, I have a request. I am Egyptian and I loved the video that you made about Egypt. I would love and appreciate if you made a long video about the Egyptian race/ ethnicity. There is a systematic attack on Egyptians where African Americans accuse us (Egyptians) of stealing their land and that we are invaders and intruders and that our civilization does not belong to us. This is all fueled by the Afrocentric ideology and the pseudo-historians like (Cheikh Anta Diop). This ideology clams that all of the North African civilizations belongs to the Blacks (the sub-Saharan Africans). They claim that we are not Africans because we do not fit to the sub-Saharan facial features. Jada Pinket smith who is an afrocentrist made a movie depicting Cleopatra as African with sub-Saharan features. African Americans see the world in such binary view. Egyptians are not white and not sub-Saharan black either. Even Egyptians with the darkest of tones don't share the same facial features with sub-Saharan Africans. There is a spectrum of skin tones in Egypt that ranges from Mediterranean light skin to champagne and olive skin tones to that reddish brown (that was depicted on the temples) to the dark brown. My father was brown (and can be considered as black in the American eyes) and my mother is light skinned like the Mediterranean people. The sad reality is that the Afrocentric movement is claiming all the North African civilizations to be black. Not just Egypt. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morrocco are black civilizations. And the people who live in those counties now are thieves and intruders. This Ideology spread like wildfire by those fake historians and a lot of African Americans and Sub-Saharan west Africans now believe in it. It's insane. They claim that we pushed them out of the country and that the whole ancient Egyptian civilization is not ours. It would be great if you made a video about Afrocentrism and this topic. Thanks again for your videos. Wish you the best.

CORRECTION: Alani people were Nomadic Iranian Tribes, not Germanic. They are North Iranians, and are the ancestors of Ossetians.

Great overview - I LOVE Spain as well.

There is not a 10% admixture with north Africans: about 5% of the Spanish male lineages have north African origin, but that doesn't equate to 5% north African DNA either (which could be almost nil in fact, since less common DNA tends to dissapear after several generations). You are going to find more Iberian ancestry in north Africa than north African ancestry in Spain as well, because Iberian Muslims fled or were expelled to north Africa during and after the reconquista. Btw, Andalusians have LESS north African male y-haplogroups than Galicia, a region that after the Canaries has the higher percentage in Spain. There is nothing you can call "Celtic" DNA either, the Indo-European invasion of Spain predates that non existent "Celtic" migration you cited by two thousand years. The Spanish DNA is basically Basques (Neolithic 45%, Indo-European 40%, hunter gatherer 15%) plus a little of Mediterranean admixture (mainly Italian). Other migrations didn't affect the whole DNA makeup of the Spanish very much. And lastly, you have to take in consideration PHENOTYPES in order to understand how populations appearance varies in different latitudes, it's not just DNA.

There was some Visigoth expansion west in the later Roman period due to pressure from warring Mongol hordes. The Visigoth were from places around Dacia and Romania and present day Bulgaria (the Eastern Provinces of the Western Roman Empire). I have heard some linguistic similarities between Castilian Spanish and Slavic Bulgarian. Uno Edno, Dos Dve, Tres Tri, Quatro Chetiri, in the number system as a quick example.

The woman you put on your advertising ain't spanish descent, she appears to be mixed indian or Amerindian but no a Spanish person has that complexion and facial features

you should have included the Portuguese, as they share a common DNA story with the Spanish. like, the entire Iberian peninsula shares the same DNA story

As a spaniard (Galician) i thought i was going to have more north african DNA since everyone is so keen on thinking we are extremely related. But my dna test showed im 60% iberian, 15% german, 15% irish Scottish and from whale's, 8% from the balkans and 2% north african. It also surprised me not having any italian dna for the same reason.

The Arabs also conquered southern Italy, Sicily, and Greece. Genetically Spaniards are more European than italians

I’m Puerto Rican, the biggest mix in me is Portugues then Spanish, North and Central African, and like 15 other mixes. Total mutt, I look very Mediterranean, my mom white looking, Dad more African, native indigenous look.

I am Mexican American, and my mother looks like a white lady. Except she only speaks Spanish.

You said the bronze age, there was already 10% north African population. It's the same amount when the moors left.

High levels of North African 😂😂 that’s a joke. The Muslims did not mix with ethnic Spanish that much. Only some people in Spain have a small percentage of arab or North African blood. It is estimated that only 60.000 Muslims came to Spain and they did not mix with the ethnic Europeans as you are saying. Just look at some dna test from Spaniards.

Mate, you have a serious confusion between the Berbers and the Phoenician. These two people have a very different genetic makeup. While the results you showed clearly show the 10%of berber component in Spanish genetic makeup, which is correct as a gene flow between Iberia and North Africa predated the Islamic expansion. Moreover, the Phoenician had little impact on the population in North Africa and Iberia except Tunisia. Please correct your analysis. FYI, berbers had their own civilisation through Numidia and their preceding kingdoms of Massyl and Massaesyles (present Algeria), which had interaction with the whole Mediterranean world.

I´m from Spain and I´m 100% spanish

Can you please do a video on French DNA? Breaking down the regions of France just like you have done with this and other videos? If so, that would be amazing! Thanks.

4500 ago the steppe men eliminated all the iberian men.

Spaniards (as in Spain not simply Spanish speaking people) have, in my opinion, some of the most attractive women in the world. And it's almost definitely because of this mixture of DNA. Generally it seems like the more mixed a population is, the more attractive people are broadly speaking. Don't get me wrong, there are extremely attractive women in every ethnic group just as there are also unattractive. I'm just saying, for my personal preference, Spaniard women...or perhaps Mediterranean women broadly, are the most beautiful women on earth. 😍

Beautiful people!!

In fact Steppe related ancestry reached in Iberia long before the Celts arrived in there. It was mainly taken there by the Bell Beaker Folk about 4,300 years ago. Celtic migrations arrived much later, about 3,000 years ago and had a much smaller genetic impact.

*Viva a todos os ibérico e íbero-americanos.* 56% Portuguese (Including the possible North-African and Middle Easterns from Carthaginian, Phoenician, Roman and Muslim times) , the others Native (I'm from Mid-North Brazil) and minor Subsaharan Africa (with 5 major groups - SG, Guinea, WAfrica, C. Africa) Culture is more important than DNA in Countries Post-Imperial, but DNA tells a lot of History and helps understand culture too. Brazil, a big guardian of Iberian Culture, specially Portuguese.

Was told growing up I was half Spanish. Turns out I'm only 6% Spanish, 8% Italian, 3% North African. The rest is a mish-mash from all over the world, but mainly Irish & Indigenous MesoAmerica.

.The Jews of Spain who were thrown out in 1492 had a choice either to convert to Christianity or to leave. I met people who told me in Italy and Spain that they know from their grandmother that they have Jewish blood in their family

It's well known by everybody that southern Spain has the most Middle Eastern DNA and the northern has zero. Just look at their monuments customs music and phenotypes and look how different it is from the North

I am Chicano (Mexican American) 55% Spaniard (Galician, Basque, Castilian, Andalusian, Valladolidian) and 40% Native American. The 5% is a mix of Irish, North African, Sardinian, Greek and Bantu African. On a more refined test, I had 4% North Caucasian connected to the Ossetian and Circassian people. However, I just count that as Spanish because the Alans (Iranian ancestors to Ossetians) settled and created a kingdom in Spain. Other than that, I’m a true product of the Spanish Empire and their mixing with Native American civilizations. I’ve traced lineages back on both sides to mid 1500s Mexico. My Haplogroup is YDNA G-L497. I do have a more refined Haplogroup, but for reasons of privacy I will not disclose. I understand that G are the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers. This goes to show that a lot of us fled to the Iberian peninsula upon the arrival of the Yamanaya people and their annihilation of the male populations throughout Europe.

OMG. The % of north african genes is very low as they came in very low quantities and as well they did not mix. On the other hand, Galician people have the highest percentage of north african genes in the spanish part of the Iberian peninsula. There is quite a % if Nordic genes in the spanish ancestry.

He forgot to mention Greek ad mixture of the Iberian Peninsula

SOUNDS LIKE THIS GUY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE FROM SPAIN ARE AND GUESSING

I am american and i have Mexican indigenous, spanish ,french, jew and north african. But to everyone around me in new mexico im just another Mexican. Lol.

I am Filipino Mestizo. My Spanish ancestry can be traced to Aragon.

Fascinating video. Thank you for posting all of your great educational videos.

The Iberians not exists ? we come from most of them not Romans; not visigoths;; not arabians; etc..thats why the name of the Peninsula is our roots ; the fpreigners you dont know the essential ..

Soy del sureste de España y toda mi familia afincada aquí por generaciones en Murcia, la Mancha y Valencia son rubios con ojos azules, a mi madre la confunden con una inglesa y todos nuestros apellidos son peninsulares… en un test de adn me salió un alto porcentaje de información genética vinculado a Alemania y los Balcanes… aunque lo mayoritariamente era ibero, y Vasco francés (eso ponía) ¿será por eso que soy 0- ? En definitiva…. No es todo así como dice pero bueno. 😅

25pcnt of Spanish carry Jewish dna (numerous studies have proved this). Makes sense since they were threatened with death if they didn’t convert to Christianity. The genetic study, based on an analysis of Y chromosomes, was conducted by a team of biologists led by Mark Jobling of the University of Leicester in England and Francesc Calafell of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona

Great video! Very interesting! Im of British and Italian decent but im sure you can find more lol! Im trying to figure out your roots lol. You can pass for Lebanese, turk or Iranian 😅 sorry if im wrong, i like guessing people's ethnicity lol. God bless and good job with all your videos.

Please make a detailed video on the Balochs, do Baloch have Median or Parthian connection, which haplogroups do they have. And where do those haplogroups belong to?

It's very hard to do a DNA video on Spain when populations like the Basques are so, so different.

España is ADN 🧬 Ibero, Celta , Celtíbero y otros grupos celtas con diferentes nombres, lo demás es aporte. Los Celtas migraron para el norte a lo que es las islas del norte como Inglaterra , Escocia, Irlanda no al revés.

As a Spanish girl I have to say that I/we don't look at all like the woman on your clickbait 🤣 I'm afraid you're gonna have to shape up! 😹😹😹

Basques????

Well… In fact, Andalucía and Galicia are the two regions of Spain with more blue eyed people. My family comes from “La Carolina” a region with high rates of central european settlements and my father and his cousins are blond and have blue eyes. I’m blond, very pale and have green eyes so, not tipycal spanish at all 😅

Mi ADN es 80% R1b. Celtíbero. 9% Europa Nor-oeste, 7% Europa Noreste y 4% Italia norte. Tampoco hay rastro genético norteafricano en mi ADN, soy del centro de la península.

Este tipo suelta chorradas a mansalva.......

I did to myself time ago a DNA test and I was pretty surprised that I didn’t have any “muslim” DNA (I’m from South Spain) and I was añso surprised that I’ve got a 2’5% of italian blood

Fantastic video, though I will say regarding DNA, we're unsure of the Gothic people. Genetically they were likely a separate group from what was to be referred to as Germania (which was a region inhabited by both Celtic and Germanic tribes, though both could be referred to as Germanic). There was some historical confusion that the Goths had originated in Sweden, but few credible scholars hold this position today. They originate in the east and were likely related to, or the descendants of Scythians.

The Alans are Iranic

I entered this video because I thought it would contain interesting information, but it didn't. Ignoring all the events derived from these migrations, conquests, wars and derived laws causes the data provided to lose considerable reliability. I have family in the South of Spain and we are talking about areas of thousands of square kilometers that were literally depopulated during the Reconquista, for example. If you want to find someone with African DNA, you should look for a recent immigrant. North African DNA? It's EXACTLY the other way around. It was first the Romans and then the Vandals who crossed the Straits to Africa. In addition to the centuries-long raids to kidnap Europeans on the coast of Spain, Portugal, Italy... In other words, it is in North Africa where there is a trace of European genetics.

Love your videos. Keep them coming.

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When I was teenager I was working a server job and some white and Asian family thought I was Italian 😂 I told them no I’m just Mexican. So I started doing research and I found out that the Roman’s were in Spain and had kids so my Spanish ancestors were descendants of Romans😂 as I got older I started looking like my native ancestors more until I decided to grow my beads

Well, in fact, there are more north african heritage in the north (Galicia for example) than in the south.

You just helped explain why Spain was more advanced in other ways when other European countries were not. They helped disperse people out throughout Europe. Simply that. But they were a composite of other groups who decided to invade Spain. So it was gathering all this knowledge of everything all in one spot.

I'm Galician, I've 67% Northwestern European, 26% Iberian, 6% North Africa, 1% Nigerian

We all are one and it doesn't matter how you arrived but it clearly shows when we walk the path of ancestory, Its us human origins that that has made us what we are today. Also there are more species that contributed to this development of all species

I'm spanish and I'm 99.3% iberian, mostly basque and 0.7 askenazi.

Southern Europeans are not that related to North Africans. Like almost at all. Berbers during the Muslim conquest made up only like 1% if iberian population. Many of them moved back to North African after the reconquista alongside European white Muslims. Most southern Spanish people are Europeans with Greek and Sardinian components alongside other European groups. They are not Berber or Arab. The o oh reason why people think Spanish people specifically in andalusía are Arab or Berber is because it was once Muslim territory. Therefor they think people there are still Muslim or Berber when it’s not even when they conquered Spain. Most of the Muslim population 99.9% were white Iberian natives. They don’t even make 5% of the genome in Spain

Please made a video for México,

Can you do an analysis of France? Thx

I'm Mexican, and have very thick brows (almost a unibrow) that make me look Arabic/Middle Eastern, for a while I didn't know why, but I guess this (1:34) explains it. 🤙🏽

I am 46% Iberian 9% Italian 8% Baltic 26 % MasoAmerican 2% Scandinavian 5% West Asia and Central Asia 3% inuit With a last name Scottish “Galloway” how is that?? 😅 please 🙏 brake it down for me so curious I consider myself Mexican

Iam Israeli i m spenish Jewish we speak ladino still to day

I’m Latin American. I am 30% Spanish and 1% North African.

Before making a video, inform correctly

DNA analysis showed that I have roots and relatives in the Andalusia region, from which my ancestors were expelled hundreds of years ago

Im just looking at myheritage dna results, i'm 36.9 %english/scottish/irish, eastern european but surprised by 16% Iberian.

love you bro hug from spain

Alans were Iranic