The term Dinaric comes from the name of a mountain called Dinara, on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In geography, it is used to describe the Dinaric Alps mountain chain. Dinara is one of the more prominent mountains located on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Dinaric Alps or Dinarides are a mountain chain in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. ...

In physical anthropology, the Dinaric race is one of the Europid (White, Caucasoid) races, and it is endemic primarily to the western part of the Balkan Peninsula. Its characteristics are tall, mostly mesomorph bodily build, with relatively long legs and short trunk and a medium arm span. The overall anatomy of the head is brahycephalic to hyperbrahycephalic (Cranial index: 81-86) whereby the condition is caused by both rather high breadth of the head and a medium length of the neurocranium, whose back part is often somewhat flattened (planoccipital). The vertical height of the cranium is high. Eyes are set relatively close and the surrounding tissue defines them as wide open. The iris is most often brown, with a significant percentage of light pigmentation in the Dinaric population. The nose is large, narrow and convex. The face is long and orthognathic, with a prominent chin, and also wide. The form of the forehead is variable, but not rarely it is bulbous. The hair color is usually dark brown, with black haired and blond individuals in minority, blondness being the characteristic of the more Central European, morphologically similar Nordic race. Physical anthropology, sometimes called biological anthropology, studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. ... Main article: Caucasian race Caucasoid describes humans primarily from Europe, parts of the Middle East and North Africa, and was one of the four major races recognized by nineteenth century racial theories. ... The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). ... The mesomorph is a person with a large chest, long torso, solid muscle structure and who is very strong. ... This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. ... Long braided hair Hair is the filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis found in mammals. ... Nordic theory (or Nordicism) was a theory of race prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...

The skin is lacking the rosy color characteristic for Northern Europe as well as the relatively brunet pigmentation characteristic for the southernmost Europe and on a geographical plane it is of medium pigmentation and often it is variable.

Several theories have been postulated regarding the genesis of the Dinaric race and most of them agree that this race is autochthonous to its present habitat from the Neolithic. The Bell-Beaker people of the European Bronze Age were at least partially Dinaric. The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) is traditionally the last part of the stone age. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ...

Dinarics are distributed in the mountainous areas of the West Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, most of Northwestern Bulgaria, Northwestern Republic of Macedonia and Northern Albania). Northern Italy is a Dinaric area. Dinarics are common element in Western Greece, Romania, Eastern Ukraine, South-Eastern German speaking areas, and they are also present in parts of Southern Poland and South-Eastern France. Official languages Macedonian2 Capital Skopje President Branko Crvenkovski Prime Minister Vlado Bučkovski Area  – Total  – % water Ranked 145th  25,713 km²  1. ...

Alternative terms are "Adriatic" and "Epirotic" race.