Indo-European Peoples
The most widely spoken family on earth: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Aryan and Iranian branches across Europe and South and West Asia.
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Indo-Aryan46 groups
Andh
Marathwada and western Vidarbha in Maharashtra (Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani, Washim and Yavatmal districts), with a smaller population in northern Telangana, India
Arlije
North Macedonia, especially Skopje, and Kosovo, with communities in southern Serbia and Montenegro and a diaspora in Western Europe, notably Germany.
Bahun
The middle hills of Nepal, from the Karnali and Bheri basins east through the Gandaki to the Kathmandu Valley; also Darjeeling and Sikkim in India, and Bhutan.
Cedis
South of the Yamuna River in north-central India, roughly the Bundelkhand region of present-day Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, India
Crimean Roma
Crimea, Ukraine (under Russian control since 2014), with communities in southern Ukraine, southern Russia and Uzbekistan
Hakkipikki
Settled colonies in southern Karnataka, India, around Hunsur, Bannerghatta, Shivamogga and Davanagere; ancestral tradition points to Gujarat and Rajasthan
Jaunsari
Jaunsar-Bawar, the hill tract between the Yamuna and Tons rivers in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, northern India (Chakrata, Kalsi and Tyuni areas).
Kewat
The Gangetic plain of northern India, chiefly Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with communities in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and the Terai of Nepal.
Mangalorean Catholics
Coastal Karnataka, India, chiefly Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts around Mangalore, with large communities in Mumbai, Bengaluru and the Persian Gulf states
Momin Ansari
Northern India, especially Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with large communities in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Gujarat, as well as in Pakistan and Nepal's Terai
Moran
Upper Assam, India, chiefly Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts, with smaller communities in neighboring Arunachal Pradesh
Narikurava
Tamil Nadu, India, with closely related Vaagri-speaking communities in neighboring southern Indian states
Slavic40 groups
Alaskan Creoles
Coastal southern Alaska, United States: the Kodiak Archipelago, Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, the Kenai Peninsula (Ninilchik, Kenai) and Sitka
Bolokhovians
The Bolokhovian Land on the upper Southern Bug, Sluch and Horyn rivers, in present-day Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia oblasts, Ukraine.
Boykos
The Beskid ranges and mid-Carpathian valleys of western Ukraine, mainly Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts and northern Zakarpattia, with a historic western extension into the Bieszczady of southeastern Poland.
Don Slavs
Upper and middle Don basin and the Voronezh River valley, around modern Voronezh, southern Russia
Dregoviches
The Pripyat basin between the Pripyat and the Western Dvina rivers, in present-day southern Belarus and adjacent northern Ukraine
Gorani
Gora region of the Šar Mountains: Dragash municipality in southern Kosovo, the Shishtavec area of Kukës County in northeastern Albania, and two villages near Tetovo in North Macedonia
Kamchadals
The Kamchatka Peninsula, chiefly the Kamchatka River valley around Milkovo, with communities along the Okhotsk coast into Magadan Oblast, Russia
Krashovani
Seven villages in the Caraș river valley, Caraș-Severin County, southwestern Romania, near Reșița
Lipovans
Danube Delta and Dobruja in Romania (Tulcea and Constanța counties), with communities in Brăila, Iași, Bucharest and Bukovina; Vylkove and the Odessa region in Ukraine; Moldova; two villages in Bulgaria
Melingoi
The western slopes of Mount Taygetos, in Laconia and Messenia, southern Peloponnese, Greece.
Narentines
The Adriatic coast between the Cetina and Neretva rivers, with the islands of Brač, Hvar, Korčula and Mljet, in present-day southern Croatia.
Novgorod Slavs
Lake Ilmen basin and the Volkhov, Lovat and Msta rivers around Novgorod, northwestern Russia
Poleshuks
Polesia, the forested wetland of the Pripyat River basin in southern Belarus and northern Ukraine, extending into eastern Poland and western Russia
Polochans
The Polota and middle Western Dvina basin around Polotsk, in present-day northern Belarus
Severians
Desna, Seym and Sula river basins: northeastern Ukraine (Chernihiv and Sumy regions) and the adjoining Kursk and Bryansk regions of Russia
Smeldingi
East of the middle Elbe, probably between the Elbe and the Havel, in what is now eastern Germany; exact territory is debated
Tivertsi
Along the Dniester and Prut rivers toward the Danube and the Black Sea, in present-day Moldova and southwestern Ukraine
Ukrani
The Uecker river valley and surrounding lake country, today the Uckermark in Brandenburg and southern Vorpommern, northeastern Germany
Ulichs
The steppe borderland north of the Black Sea, first between the lower Dnieper and the Southern Bug, later between the Southern Bug and the Dniester: modern southern Ukraine and Moldova.
Volhynians
Volhynia, between the Western Bug and the upper Pripyat basin: today northwestern Ukraine, with fringes in eastern Poland and southwestern Belarus
Wagri
Wagria (Wagrien), eastern Holstein in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, between Kiel Bay, the Trave river and the Baltic coast, centered on Oldenburg in Holstein
Romance37 groups
Andalusians
Andalusia, the eight southernmost provinces of Spain, with large diaspora communities in Catalonia, Madrid and western Europe.
Atikum
Serra do Umã, in the municipalities of Carnaubeira da Penha and Floresta, in the sertão of Pernambuco, Brazil
B'nai Moshe
Originally Cajamarca and Trujillo in northern Peru; most now live in Israel, many in West Bank settlements
Brayons
The Madawaska region of the upper Saint John River valley: northwestern New Brunswick and nearby Témiscouata, Quebec, in Canada, and northern Aroostook County, Maine, in the United States.
Caboclos
Brazil, above all the Amazon basin states of Para, Amazonas, Acre and Rondonia, with the term also used across the rural interior and the Northeast.
Caiçaras
Atlantic coast of southeastern and southern Brazil, from southern Rio de Janeiro state along the São Paulo shoreline to the bays of Paraná
Caipiras
The interior of São Paulo state and adjoining parts of southern Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul and northern Paraná, in south-central Brazil.
Chango
Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo regions), historically extending into southern Peru.
Gamela
Baixada Maranhense floodplain around Viana, Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil, centered on the Taquaritiua territory
Genízaros
Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, United States, especially Abiquiú, Belén, Tomé and the Chama and Río Grande valleys; historically Spanish and Mexican New Mexico
Hispanos of New Mexico
Northern and central New Mexico along the upper Rio Grande, extending into the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, United States
Houma
Coastal southeastern Louisiana, United States, chiefly Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson, St. Mary, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Historically the east bank of the Mississippi near the Red River, in present-day Mississippi and northern Louisiana.
Kanindé
Ceará, Brazil: Fernandes village in Aratuba (Serra de Baturité) and a community in the municipality of Canindé
Kaxixó
Pará River valley in central Minas Gerais, Brazil, around the municipalities of Martinho Campos and Pompéu
Megleno-Romanians
The Meglen (Moglena) region in the Pella and Kilkis regional units of northern Greece and around Gevgelija in North Macedonia; smaller communities in Romania (Cerna, Tulcea County) and Turkey.
Megorashim
Morocco, chiefly Fez, Meknes, Tetouan and Tangier, and parts of Algeria; ancestral homeland in Spain and Portugal
Mercheros
Spain, historically traveling across the central and northern interior, especially Castile; now mostly settled around Madrid, Barcelona and other cities
Neofiti
Southern Italy, chiefly Apulia (Trani, Bari and neighboring towns); the term was later also used for converted Jews in Sicily after 1492
Pankara
Serra do Arapuá, municipality of Carnaubeira da Penha, in the sertão of Pernambuco, Brazil
Pastos
Highlands of southern Nariño department, Colombia (around Ipiales, Cumbal, Guachucal and Túquerres), and Carchi province in northern Ecuador
Picards
Picardy and the wider Hauts-de-France region of northern France (Somme, Oise, Aisne, Nord, Pas-de-Calais), plus western Hainaut in Belgium around Tournai and Mons
Pieds-Noirs
Coastal and northern Algeria under French rule, 1830 to 1962, concentrated in Algiers, Oran, Constantine and Annaba; since 1962 mainly southern France.
Quilombolas
Rural and peri-urban communities across Brazil, concentrated in Bahia and Maranhão, with many also in Minas Gerais, Pará, Goiás and other states
Topasses
Solor, Larantuka on eastern Flores, and Timor, especially Lifau and Oecusse, in present-day Indonesia and East Timor
Germanic32 groups
Afro-Kittitians and Nevisians
Saint Kitts and Nevis, a two-island federation in the Leeward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean
Anglo-Burmese
Myanmar (Burma), historically centered on Rangoon (Yangon), Moulmein (Mawlamyine) and Maymyo (Pyin Oo Lwin); now largely a diaspora in the United Kingdom and Australia
Anglo-Indians
Cities and former railway towns across India, especially Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Secunderabad, with large diaspora populations in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
Anglo-Irish
Ireland, historically on landed estates across the island and in Dublin; many families moved to Great Britain after independence in 1922
Anglo-Saxons
Lowland Britain, most of present-day England and southeastern Scotland (United Kingdom), 5th to 11th centuries
Cape Coloureds
Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa, centered on Cape Town, with communities across the rest of the country and in Namibia
Cape Malays
Cape Town and the wider Western Cape, South Africa, historically concentrated in the Bo-Kaap and, until the forced removals, District Six.
Carpathian Germans
Slovakia, chiefly the Bratislava area, the Hauerland around Kremnica and Handlová, and the Spiš region; historically also Carpathian Ruthenia, now Zakarpattia in Ukraine
Coharie
Sampson and Harnett counties on the coastal plain of North Carolina, United States, centered near Clinton and Great Coharie Creek
Crimean Goths
The mountainous southwest of the Crimean peninsula, between the Black Sea coast and the steppe, in present-day Ukraine
Gambrivii
Probably the interior of northwestern Germany, east of the Rhine and west of the Weser; exact location unknown
Gottscheers
The Kočevje (Gottschee) region of southern Slovenia until the 1940s; today mostly Austria, the United States, Canada and Germany, with a small remaining community in Slovenia
Griqua
Northern Cape, Free State, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with historical settlements in Namibia
Indos
Originally the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, especially Java; today mostly the Netherlands, with communities in the United States and Australia.
Lumbee
Robeson County and the Lumber River basin of southeastern North Carolina, United States, with a long-standing urban community in East Baltimore, Maryland.
Melungeons
The Cumberland Gap country where Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky meet, centered on Newman's Ridge and the Vardy and Blackwater valleys of Hancock County, Tennessee, with related families in Lee, Scott and Wise counties, Virginia, and southeastern Kentuck
Mòcheni
Upper Fersina Valley (Bersntol, Valle dei Mòcheni), east of Trento in Trentino, northern Italy
Romanichal
England, Wales and southern Scotland in the United Kingdom, with established communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Iranian32 groups
Afro-Iranians
Iran's Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman coast, chiefly Hormozgan (Bandar Abbas, Minab, Qeshm) and Bushehr, with smaller communities in Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, and inland cities such as Shiraz and Tehran
Al-Abna'
Yemen, chiefly Sana'a and the surrounding highlands; the founding soldiers came from the Sasanian Empire (Iran)
Basseri
Fars province, southern Iran, moving between winter pastures in the lowlands south of Shiraz and summer pastures in the Kuh-e Bul highlands to the north
Bugti
Dera Bugti District in eastern Balochistan, Pakistan, with sizable communities in upper Sindh and southwestern Punjab
Ghorbati
Afghanistan and Iran, traditionally traveling between villages and market towns; many families now settled on the edges of towns and cities
Jalali
Around Mount Ararat: Maku County in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, and the Doğubayazıt area of Ağrı Province, Turkey
Jamali
The eastern plains of Balochistan, especially Jafarabad and Nasirabad districts, plus Jacobabad and other districts of northern Sindh, with smaller communities in Punjab, Pakistan
Kangju
Middle Syr Darya valley and the Tashkent oasis, extending into Sogdiana; present-day Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan
Mandokhel
Zhob District and neighboring parts of northeastern Balochistan, Pakistan, on the western side of the Sulaiman Mountains
Mazanderanis
Mazandaran province on the southern Caspian coast of northern Iran, between the sea and the Alborz Mountains, with communities in neighboring Golestan and in Tehran.
Med
Makran coast of Balochistan, Pakistan, and Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran, with communities in Karachi and in Gulf states such as Oman and the UAE
Munji
Munjan valley at the head of the Kokcha river, Kuran wa Munjan district, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan; the closely related Yidgha live in Chitral, Pakistan
Pazuki
Eastern Turkey, historically the uplands between Erzurum and Lake Van; a branch settled in Iran
Qizilbash
Chiefly Kabul, especially the old Chindawol quarter, with smaller communities in Herat and Kandahar, Afghanistan; diaspora in Pakistan, Iran, Europe and North America
Şaddilî
Northern Khorasan in northeastern Iran, centered on Bojnurd in North Khorasan Province
Sistanis
Sistan, the Helmand delta and Hamun basin around Zabol in Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran; historic Sistan reaches into Nimruz province, Afghanistan; large migrant communities in Golestan province and other Iranian cities
Timuri
Western Afghanistan, chiefly Herat, Badghis and Ghor provinces, with communities across the border in Iranian Khorasan and further south in Sistan and Baluchestan
Eastern Iranian10 groups
Afridi
Khyber district and the Tirah valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, with communities in Peshawar, Kohat, Karachi and a long-settled diaspora in northern India
Bangash
Kohat, Hangu and Kurram districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, with earlier roots near Gardez, Afghanistan
Dawar
Tochi (Dawar) Valley in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, centered on Miranshah and Mir Ali
Digor
Digoria, the upper Urukh valley and the Digorsky and Iraf districts of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia, with communities around Mozdok, in Kabardino-Balkaria, and in Turkey.
Jadran
The mountains where Paktia, Khost and Paktika provinces meet in southeastern Afghanistan (Loya Paktia)
Mohammadzai
Kandahar and Kabul, Afghanistan, with older branches once seated in Peshawar; sizable exile communities in Europe and North America since 1978.
Nasar
Central and southeastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan; historically moving between Afghan highland summer pastures and winter grounds on the plains around Dera Ismail Khan
West Slavic10 groups
Bambers
Former city villages around Poznań, Greater Poland, Poland (Luboń, Jeżyce, Wilda, Rataje, Dębiec, Górczyn, Winiary, Bonin), most now part of the city; ancestral origin around Bamberg, Franconia, Germany
Brizani
Lower Havel River around Havelberg, near where it joins the Elbe, in present-day Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Děčané
The Elbe valley around present-day Děčín in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, just upstream of the sandstone gorge that leads into Saxony.
Greater Poles
Greater Poland (Wielkopolska), the historic region of west-central Poland around Poznań, Gniezno, Kalisz, Konin and Leszno, mostly within today's Greater Poland Voivodeship
Kurpie Białe
Puszcza Biała (White Forest), between the lower Bug and Narew rivers around Wyszków, Brok and Długosiodło, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Kuyavians
Kuyavia (Kujawy), a lowland region of north-central Poland around Inowrocław, Włocławek and Lake Gopło, mostly within Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Lusici
Lower Lusatia, between the Black Elster and the Neisse along the Spree, in present-day Brandenburg and Saxony, Germany, with a fringe in western Poland
Pogórzanie
Carpathian Foothills of southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian voivodeships, around Gorlice, Biecz, Jasło, Krosno, Brzozów and Sanok
Celtic9 groups
Ambisontes
The upper Salzach valley in the eastern Alps, roughly the modern Pinzgau district of Salzburg state, Austria
Brigantii
The eastern end of Lake Constance and the lower Alpine Rhine valley, centered on Brigantium (modern Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria), near the present German and Swiss borders.
Taurisci
The southeastern Alps and the Sava and Drava valleys: present-day Slovenia and southern Austria, reaching into northeastern Italy and northwestern Croatia.
Hellenic8 groups
Aeolians
Thessaly and Boeotia in eastern mainland Greece; from about 1100 BC also Lesbos, Tenedos and the Aeolis coast of northwest Anatolia (modern Greece and Turkey)
Cappadocian Greeks
Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Turkey, around Kayseri, Niğde and Nevşehir; since the 1923 population exchange, mainly Greece, including Macedonia, Thessaly and Euboea.
Greek Muslims
Historically Crete, western Macedonia and Epirus in Greece, and the Of and Tonya districts of Trabzon Province, Turkey; descendants now live mainly in Turkey, with communities in Syria and Lebanon
Karagounides
The Thessalian plain in central Greece, above all the western plain around Karditsa and Trikala, extending toward Larissa
Pontic Greeks
Pontus, the Black Sea coast and Pontic Mountains of northeastern Turkey around Trabzon and Samsun; since the 1920s mostly northern Greece, with communities in Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Western Europe
Italic8 groups
Capenates
The ager Capenas on the right bank of the Tiber around ancient Capena, north of Rome in present-day Lazio, Italy.
Caudini
Western Samnium around Monte Taburno and the Valle Caudina, on the Campanian border, in today's provinces of Benevento and Avellino, Italy.
Falisci
The Ager Faliscus in the middle Tiber valley of southern Etruria, north of Rome, centered on Falerii; today northern Lazio, Italy.
Hernici
Middle Sacco (ancient Trerus) valley in southern Lazio, Italy: the hill towns of Anagni, Ferentino, Alatri and Veroli.
Latins
Old Latium (Latium Vetus): the plain, Alban Hills and ridge towns between the Tiber and Mount Circeo in central Italy, later spreading into Latium adiectum. Modern Lazio, Italy.
Lucanians
Lucania in southern Italy, roughly modern Basilicata plus the Cilento in southern Campania and the northern edge of Calabria (Italy)
West Germanic7 groups
Baltic Germans
Historically present-day Estonia and Latvia (the former provinces of Estland, Livonia and Courland); most descendants now live in Germany.
Basters
Rehoboth and the surrounding Rehoboth Gebiet in central Namibia, south of Windhoek; originally the northern Cape frontier of South Africa.
Batavi
The Rhine delta island between the Waal and the Rhine, now the Betuwe and Nijmegen area of Gelderland, Netherlands
Ulster Scots
Northern Ireland, especially Counties Antrim, Down and Londonderry, and east Donegal in the Republic of Ireland; large descendant populations in the United States and Canada
Vilamovians
The town of Wilamowice, between Bielsko-Biała and Oświęcim, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland
Dardic6 groups
East Slavic4 groups
Chaldons
Siberia, Russia: the old settlement belt from Tyumen and Tobolsk through Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and the Altai foothills to Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk.
Indo-Iranian3 groups
Baltic3 groups
Other Indo-European groups28 groups
Anglo-Normans
England and Normandy, with later settlement in Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland (United Kingdom, Ireland, France)
Arbanasi
Arbanasi and nearby parts of Zadar, northern Dalmatia, Croatia; ancestral villages around Lake Skadar in present-day Montenegro and Albania
Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians
Kosovo above all (Ashkali in the center and east, Egyptians in the west), with Egyptian communities in Albania and North Macedonia and smaller numbers in Serbia and Montenegro
Bashkardi
The Bashagard (Bashkard) mountains of southeastern Iran, inland from the Gulf of Oman and north of Jask, mainly in Hormozgan province
Bhottada
Nabarangpur and Koraput districts of southern Odisha, and the Bastar region of southern Chhattisgarh, India
Bokelji
The Bay of Kotor (Boka Kotorska) on the Adriatic coast of southwestern Montenegro: Kotor, Tivat, Herceg Novi, Perast, Risan and the villages between them.
Cenomani
The valleys of the Sarthe and Huisne rivers around modern Le Mans, in the historic region of Maine, western France
Cham Albanians
Chameria, coastal Epirus in northwestern Greece (Thesprotia, northern Preveza) and the adjoining Konispol area of Albania; since 1944 to 1945 mainly Albania, with some descendants in Turkey
Cimbrians
Upland plateaus of northeastern Italy: the Asiago plateau (Vicenza) and Lessinia (Verona) in Veneto, and Luserna in Trentino
Costoboci
The upper Dniester and Prut basins on the northern flank of the Carpathians, in present day western Ukraine, northern Moldova and northeastern Romania.
Dacians
Carpathian basin and lower Danube: present-day Romania and Moldova, with parts of Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia
Daylamites
Daylam, the mountain country of the western Alborz above the southwestern Caspian coast, in present-day Gilan and Qazvin provinces, northern Iran
Farsiwan
Western Afghanistan, chiefly Herat and Farah provinces, with older urban communities in Kandahar, Ghazni and Kabul
Gandharis
Ancient Gandhara: the Peshawar valley, Swat and the Taxila region of northern Pakistan, reaching into eastern Afghanistan along the Kabul River.
Illyrians
Western Balkans: the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland across modern Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, and parts of Serbia and North Macedonia
Khorasani Kurds
Northeastern Iran, mainly North Khorasan and Razavi Khorasan provinces around Quchan, Shirvan, Faruj, Bojnord and Esfarayen, with small related communities in Turkmenistan
Morlachs
The Dalmatian hinterland, Lika and western Herzegovina, in present-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sacaraucae
Steppe between the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) and Amu Darya (Oxus), in present-day Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan; later Bactria and the Parthian frontier in Afghanistan and Iran.
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