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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 6029500, member: 2844&quot;]Were the Bulgarian Persians Sarmatians? If so, they were related to the Scythians, and like them originally from Central Asia. Central Asian culture still has a strong Persian influence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes they were, their seats of power were in present day Belgium, but they also lived in parts of the Netherlands and France, and still do. The dominant Dutch language is still mainly Frankish, with some Saxon influence.</p><p>Most Frankish areas were a mix of Franks and Celts. Celts originated from the Black Sea area, so we could be related.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I am part-Persian btw, so that could bring our ancestry even closer.</p><p><br /></p><p>European and Asian peoples were always on the move.</p><p>I was surprised to learn a few years ago that reserach showed that the first agriculturists in my part of the Netherlands (the high ground) came from Mesopotamia. Maybe that is one of many reasons there are many olive-skinned and dark-haired people in the southeast of the country.</p><p>Other reasons are simply that many European peoples moved westward over thousands of years, either because other peoples took their place in the east and south, because they were ethnic and religious refugees, or simply for economic reasons.</p><p>There is also a surprisingly high percentage of Berber genes among the Dutch, higher than among other West Europeans. No idea how that came about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our country was certainly a &#039;people magnet&#039;, which has resulted in a population of nearly 17.7 million people on a postage stamp.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>When you only look at the records from 1600-now, 96% of Dutch people, many of whom thought of themselves 100% Dutch, are of foreign origin. Although there is such a thing as a Dutch nation and culture, there is hardly such a thing as Dutch ethnicity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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