Guess northerns Slavs and some neighbours

[quarryman]

They are from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sorbian-speaking Saxony (Germany), formerly Slavic speaking German provnice of Mecklenburg, Czech republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

Comments on choice and features strongly wanted.

My apologies for the varying quality and size of the pics.

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[attis]

They all mostly look so similar. I can't tell. LOL

[oubit]

1) Latvia
2) Ukraine
3) Poland
4) Mecklenburg
5) Russia
6) Saxony
7) Czech
8) Hungary
9) Belarus
10) Lithuania
11) Slovakia

[Platypus]

1 Nordic-Cromagnoid (Corded-Cro magnid) Russia?
2 Alpine. Hungary?
3 a true mix of types, Nordid braincase, possibly Pontid? -Baltid features. Ukraine?
4 Nordid Baltid. Latvia?
5 Dalofaelid (Cro magnid-Nordid) Mecklenburg???
6 Nordid- Dinarid almost Keltic type Czech?
7 Pole?
8 'almost lappish type' very interesting face. maybe he is the Saxon
9 Pred. Cro Magnid, Lithuania?
10 Balticized Nordid-Alpinid (Neo Danubian or Sub nordid types) Slovakian?
11 very Polish looking IMO 'Belarus'?

[Platypus]

by the way sc'vèick (your avatar) is Alpine

[quarryman]

Yes, Svejk is very Alpinid.

oubit has the Latvian (1) and Slovak (11) right.
Platypus has the Hungarian (2) right.

Keep on guessing if in mood. There are eight left to place.

[Polako]

1) Latvia
2) Hungary
3) Belarus
4) Lithuania
5) Czech Republic
6) Russia
7) Saxony
8) Ukraine
9) Mecklenberg
10) Poland
11) Slovakia

[zemelmete]

nr.4 is lithuanian (he would pass also as latvian)
nr.8 could be russian

[quarryman]

Polako placed the Pole (10) right.
zemelmete placed the Russian (8) right.

There are six left to place: the Lithuanian, the east German, the Sorb, the Czech, the Belarussian and the Ukrainian.

[oubit]

1) Latvia
2) Hungary
3) Czech
4) Ukraine
5) Belarus
6) Mecklenburg
7) Lithuania
8) Russia
9) Saxony
10) Poland
11) Slovakia

[quarryman]

oubit: sorry.

The correct line is (with my original speculations in the parentheses):
1) Latvia (Nordid with Cromagnid or Baltid admixture)
2) Hungary (Alpinid with relatively high head and something "southern" in the all-over impression)
3) Lithuania (Like Platypus wrote a Nordid head with Baltid or Alpinid influences in the face)
4) Saxon Lusatia (looks as any German from the northern half)
5) Ukraine (here I see a slightly Dinaricized Baltid, very Ukrainian looking in my eyes)
6) Belarus (unusually leptomorph, perhaps Nordid with Pontid influences and slightly Dinaricized)
7) Mecklenburg (something like a hint of Dinaricization on a Nordid-Borrebyid base)
8) Russia (could as well be Finnish, northern Scandinavian or Saami)
9) Czech rep (somewhere in the Cromagnid-Alpinid range, typically rugged, robust features)
10) Poland (I want to see Nordid, Baltid and Alpinid)
11) Slovakia (Baltid-Alpinid with some Dinaricization, more "southern" looking than many others)

[zemelmete]

This german could easly pass as latvian. I think it proves how strong links have been between Baltic countries and Germany (especially Saxonia). German minority lived in Latvia's and Estonia's territory more than 7 centuries - from 12. century till year 1939 (when the lagest part went to Germany under Hitler's summons. The rest of germans went in 1945 when Baltic countries were occupied by USSR).

[quarryman]

Well, he is really not a German but a Sorb, living in Germany. The Slavonic component in the east German population is much larger than the number ov Sorbic speakers today. And since the Slavs and the Balts have been close neighbours for a long time - both of them also subject to Germanic or German influence - there is no wonder that they often look the same.