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What I mean is we often hear of romanticized tales of specific regions of countries, islands, etc. being entirely separate, usually being the result of some area having avoided conquest. I have spent much time searching for them myself.
Examples are:
1. Western Ireland supposedly being separate from the rest of Ireland genetically and being Iberian-like or at least, "pure" Irish
2. Southwestern England and Wales having no Saxon input and being Iberian-like or "pure" British
3. Parts of remote Sicily or Crete being "pure" Doric Greek or "pure" Middle Eastern or "pure" Italo-Celtic or whatever
4. Some part of Iberia having almost no Moorish DNA (this does exist in Basques, but otherwise, not really)
Does such a thing even exist?
I have come to conclude that the majority of European genetic structures have been in place for thousands of years well before any conquests or settlements we'd know of, and that demographic changes were wide-reaching and rarely skipped over any areas.
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