Aryan race
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The Aryan race was a racial grouping commonly used in the period of the late 19th century to the mid 20th century to describe peoples of Indo-European Eurasian heritage. It derives from the idea that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their descendants up to the present day constitute a distinctive race or subrace of the larger Caucasian race.
Aryanism developed as a racial ideology that claimed that the Aryan race was a master race. While originally meant simply as a neutral ethno-linguistic classification, from the late 19th century onwards the concept of the Aryan race has been used by proponents of ideologically-motivated racism and white supremacism such as in doctrines of Nazism and neo-Nazism.
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- Anatolian hypothesis
- Aryan
- Indo-Aryan migrations
- Indo-Iranians
- Iranian peoples
- Nordic theory
- Proto-Indo-Europeans
- Indo-European language family
- Kurgan hypothesis
- R1a1a
- Race Life of the Aryan Peoples
- SLC24A5
- Scandinavism
- White nationalism
- White supremacy
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Third Reich specific
Contemporaneous concepts of race