What are Croats?

[Shapur]

What are Croats?


I talk with many Croatians. The most of them said they are Iranians.
And also heard that in Croatian schoolbooks where wrote that Croatians are an Iranian tribe. I hope we can have here a good discussion about this subject.
Please respect everyhere who want to argument.
Maybe many of Pan-Slavics will be angry about this but I will discuss about the schoolary fact.

Thx!

[Glenlivet]

Maybe partially related to the ancient Iranic tribes of the South Russian steppes that also moved into the Iranian plateau. The anthropological type(s) that they represented may now be more common among Cossack populations and Southwest Caspian (Gilakis) people of Northwestern Iran.

What is sure is that they are nowhere to be found in southernmost Iran.

[Sword Brethren]

In my school most White Nationalists hate the Croatians. They view them as backwards foreigners at the least, and as non-whites at the worst. That is just false. Croatians are certainly white.

[Glenlivet]

Is this school in the USA and could it be because of Nato politics in the Balkans?

In my school most White Nationalists hate the Croatians. They view them as backwards foreigners at the least, and as non-whites at the worst. That is just false. Croatians are certainly white.

[Awar]

I'm pro-pan-Slavic but I recognize the strong possibility that Croats originated somewhere in the Russian steppes as an Iranian tribe ( that got Slavicized sometime before they settled in the Balkans ). Same goes for Serbs, as both names have a clearly non-Slavic and most probably Iranian origin. ( of course, these north Iranian tribes are closely intertwined with the histories of Slavs, Thracians and other peoples who lived in the vicinity, so it's unusally hard to tell which one is which).

Having said all this, the Croats are genetically closely related to other peoples from the Balkans and central Europe. They are predominantly of indigenous, palaeolithic and other genetic lineages, but also show the picture of subsequent Slavic invasions ( and even some central Asian lineages on the island of Hvar, this thanks to the Avar invasion ).

Croats are in no way a backward nation, rather a typical European people.

[Vojvoda]

The anthropological type(s) that they represented may now be more common among Cossack populations and Southwest Caspian (Gilakis) people of Northwestern Iran.

Post some pics of these people please.

[Shapur]

I saw many Croats and everytime I thought they are Iranians.
It is a fact that they mixed with European people but genetical test shows that they are 75% of Iranian origin. This would also claim why they don`t looking typical Slavic but typical Iranian. We don`t need to speak about the physical Anthropology, because the genetic Anthropology is better and more detailed.
By the way Hrvatia is not in the North Iran it is well described in the Avesta so we don`t need to struggle where it laid!
I am personal for a re-annaxion of Hrvati to the Iranian world.
Also the supporting of other Iranian nations in east Europe.
I think many of you don`t like my words but this is my opinion so I accept your opinions.
By the way the most south Slavic tribes are a mix of Iranians and Slaves.
You can see this also by the fact that they have dark hairs and not fair hairs.
Most of them looking Iranian.

By the way Gilakis are Iranians!

Bedroud and a nice day!

[Siegfried]

It is a fact that they mixed with European people but genetical test shows that they are 75% of Iranian origin.

Could you give me a source?
I've met but a few Croatians and Iranians in my life, and they didn't look very similar to me. The Iranians seemed darker, while one Croatian had very Mongoloid eyes (perhaps due to Avar heritage?). But then again; I've met but a few Iranians and Croatians, so I'm not sure how representative they were for their nations.

[A-C-LA]

I saw many Croats and everytime I thought they are Iranians.

maybe some people look like anicent iranians but not like todays iranians in iran

i have seen hundreds of croats in my life and many iranians too
and they don't look very similiar

It is a fact that they mixed with European people but genetical test shows that they are 75% of Iranian origin

hmmm

[bocian]

I saw many Croats and everytime I thought they are Iranians.

I have met many Croats and Persians. Your statement is ridiculous, and proves that you are talking out of your ass.

Where have you seen these Persian Croats?

I would also like to see your source on this genetic test.