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Roughly how many "genetic Turks" moved into Anatolia as they conquered it from the Byzantine Empire, and afterward? Are the Turks today mostly of the same genetic stock as existed under the Byzantines, with a bit of Turkic DNA mixed in? Or did most of the original inhabitants get replaced?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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