The Home Of The Aryans

Anusantatyi: Festschrift fuer Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag / Ed. A. Hinze and E. Tichy. — Dettelbach: J. H. Roell, 2000. — P. 283—338.The search for an Indo-European homeland has taken us some two hundred years by now. The discussion can easily be summarized, if somewhat facetiously, by: the homeland is at, or close to the homeland of the author of the book in question... The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to the homeland of the Indo-Iranians, or Arya/Ārya, as they call themselves. For this, we will have to look a little bit further afield, first of all, to the Urals. The main part of this paper, however, will be concerned with the supposed "mythical homeland" of the Iranians, Airiianəm Vaẽjah.