The last Romans are still around

Re:The last Romans are still around by vintermann on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:04AM (#48684217)

It isn't, but OP doesn't say it is either. I think it's a worthwhile point to make that exceedingly few nations, cultures, ethnicites etc. correspond cleanly to equivalent groups that existed ~2000 years ago.

Identity-building projects need simple stories, genetics (or history generally) rarely gives them.

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Re:The last Romans are still around by pm3003 on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:36AM (#48686516)

Probably Georgia as a political entity, Armenia, Cambodia and Vietnam as nations probably.

I know other examples of relative ethnic stability: most of Northern Europe broadly has the same ethnic geographic boundaries as 1500 years ago (excepting the slavic / proto slavic things), the Basque, the Sardinians, Bretons and Bearnese, Tirolians, Kabyles, Laz "Greeks" (vanishing since WWII).

By some measures also Egypt (coastal cities excepted) and Iran.

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