Aryan race
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The 4th edition of Meyers Konversationslexikon (Leipzig, 1885-1890) shows the Caucasian race (in blue) as being made up of Aryans, Semites and Hamites. Aryans are further subdivided into European Aryans and Indo-Aryans. The people called "Indo-Aryans" on this 1890 map are today known as Indo-Iranians, and the word "Indo-Aryan" is only used today for those Indo-Iranians from northern India.
The Aryan race is the idea that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their modern descendants originally came from the same ancestors, called the Proto-Indo-Europeans. In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, the Proto-Indo-Europeans were called Proto-Aryans.