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The entire history of Europe for the past 4,000 years is of migrations from the East to the West. First the Lusitaninans, Basques, Etruscans, and Belgae, then the Celts (let's include the Gauls in that group), then the Mycenaeans, then the Greeks, then the Romans (who were Latins,), then the Franks, Angles, Saxons, and other Germanic tribes, then the Huns and Slavs. Roughly.


In the Iberian Peninsula we also had a migration from the South to the North with the Muslim conquest that started in 711, but apparently they didn't leave that big of a genetic legacy.


Maybe not genetic, but plenty of our southern dishes, music and some village traditions can be found in some form on the other side of Mediterrean.


Sure, nobody can deny the Arabic influence in Spain. For example, around 10% of the vocabulary of modern Spanish comes from Arabic.


Actually, genetic studies found that Al-Andalus did leave a sizable admixture behind.

Lots of references here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_the_Iberian...


And the Ottomans in the Balkans.


And if you go back far enough, the Yamnaya.


Yeap there does seem to be a general drift from bottom-right towards top-left on the map of europe. Except, perhaps, the vikings who went from north to south?




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