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CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF ARMENIA 237
them ; the two races must be regarded as branches of the same
stock. The Dinaric, however, has been partly mixed with
other European races ; it is very widely distributed in the
Balkan Mountains (the Dinaric Alps), Albania, Montenegro,
Herzegovina, Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia. Of the Southern
Slav peoples in these countries (except the Bulgarians, origin
ally a Finnish people, who entered the Balkans later) it forms
the bulk. It is found in the Carpathians and the Transylvanian
Alps, and sporadically in Austria, South Germany, Czecho-
Slovakia, here and there in Switzerland, in North Italy, in
the midlands and south of France, etc, and also in
Ukraine.
F. v. Luschan I and several other scholars hold that the
west-Asiatic (Armenian) race was indigenous in Asia Minor,
whence it spread in all directions. At a later date people of
the dark, long-skulled race entered from the south and people
of the fair Nordic race from the north, and intermingled more
or less with the Armenoid people. If this hypothesis is
correct, the Dinaric race must have immigrated at an early
date from Asia Minor into the Balkan Peninsula, and thence
spread over Southern Europe. But later on there were migra
tions in the opposite direction of Indo-European peoples like
the Phrygians, Armenians, Treres, and other Thracian tribes,
who passed from the Balkan Peninsula to Asia Minor. There
has been a strong tendency to assume that all these Indo-
European or " Indo-Germanic " immigrant peoples belonged
essentially to the fair, long-skulled Nordic race, whose Nordic
characteristics soon largely disappeared as a result of admixture
with the Armenoid aboriginals, though the languages remained
intact. But all this seems very doubtful. For one thing, the
peoples who spoke the Indo-European languages belonged
to different European races, and even in those days the
peoples of Europe must have been largely of mixed race. For
another, it is extremely unlikely that a people coming from
the Balkan Peninsula and with a language from the very parts
inhabited by the Dinaric short-skulls would belong—to any
large extent—to the Nordic race. On the contrary, there are
1 F. v. Luschan, " The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia," Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute, xli, London, 191 1.
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