The Christians of Stratonikeia

Stratonikeia, in the hills of Muğla, is protected as a living historical city: a Hellenistic and Roman theatre, gymnasium and council house stand among houses from the Beylik, Ottoman and Republican eras. Its West Church served as a burial ground long after antiquity. The dead lie in east-west cist tombs built into the church itself, most of them reused; two of these ten shared a grave and were about second cousins, and another is a boy of fifteen to seventeen. Some were buried under the Menteşe Beylik, so Byzantine here names the rite rather than the ruler. Genetically they carry the standard Roman and Byzantine Anatolian profile, with none of the East Eurasian ancestry that appears later at nearby Çapalıbağ.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe.

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  Who were the Christians of Stratonikeia?

  The Christians of Stratonikeia (c. 1000-1400 CE, Stratonikeia, Eskihisar, Yatağan, Muğla, Turkey) are one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 10 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe".

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  What does "matching" the Christians of Stratonikeia mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Christians of Stratonikeia?

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