Dinaric race

According to the discredited theories of physical anthropologist Carleton Coon, the Dinaric race was most commonly found among the populations in the Balkans and Carpathians, such as Montenegrins, Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats, Ghegs, Slovaks, Romanians, Hungarians, Western Ukrainians, and Southern Poles.

[5] The notion of a Dinaric race originated with racial anthropologist Joseph Deniker in the late 19th century, but became most closely associated with the writings of Carleton S. Coon and Nazi eugenicist Hans F. K. Günther.

The term was derived from the Dinaric Alps (the western part of Southeastern Europe) which was supposed to be the principal habitat of the race.

[citation needed] The Noric race (German: Norische Rasse) was a racial category proposed by the anthropologist Victor Lebzelter.

[7] The term derived from Noricum, a province of the Roman Empire roughly equivalent to southern Austria and northern Slovenia.

Joseph Deniker 's map of European races (1899) identified "Dinarics" as the dominant group in parts of central Europe , Northern Italy and the northwestern Balkans .