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Aryan (/ ˈɛəriən /), or Arya in Proto-Indo-Iranian, [1] is a term originating from the ethno-cultural self-designation of the Indo-Iranians.
Oct 29, 2024 · In Europe the notion of white racial superiority emerged in the 1850s, propagated most assiduously by the comte de Gobineau and later by his disciple Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who first used the term “Aryan” to mean the “white race.”
Mar 19, 2019 · Many historians refer the term Aryans with those who spoke Indo-European languages, including English, Russian, Greek, German, Persian, Latin and Sanskrit. These people were considered to have settled in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent in prehistoric times.
Oct 8, 2020 · It was first applied as a self-identifying term by a migratory group of people from Central Asia later known as Indo-Iranians (who settled on the Iranian Plateau) and, later, applied to Indo-Aryans (who traveled south to settle northern India).
Jan 28, 2024 · Historically, the original Aryans identified themselves as Arya and were believed to have originated in Northern India. However, recent evidence has pointed towards the Sintashta culture in Russia as the possible birthplace of the Indo-Iranians, challenging previously held beliefs about their origins.
Jan 29, 2011 · The term Aryan or Arya appears to be the oldest one known for Indo-Europeans, and in India it is used to denote those northerners who may (or may not in some views) have migrated into India from Central Asia.
Aug 16, 2011 · The Aryans in prehistoric times: their coming to India and Iran. The linguistic history and the history of their religion and culture indicate that the Aryans (Indo-Iranians) must originally have formed one single people. Only about the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. did their unity split up, when Indo-Aryans and Iranians went separate ways.
Nov 10, 2024 · The word Aryan has roots in world that Iranians called themselves by Aryia, meaning free, noble and steady. The word Iran is derived from this very root, having been transformed from Aryan to Iran, meaning the land of the Aryans.
Aryan (/ ˈɛəriən /), or Arya in Proto-Indo-Iranian, is a term originating from the ethno-cultural self-designation of the Indo-Iranians. It stood in contrast to nearby outsiders, whom they designated as non-Aryan (*an-āryā).
Jan 1, 2022 · In the nineteenth century, European philologists came to identify “Aryan” or “Indo-European” as a specific family of languages. Subsequently, the concept of Aryan as a linguistic category came to be conflated with that of Aryan as a racial category.
