Aryan (disambiguation)

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Aryan was a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.

Aryan or Arya may also refer to:

Ethno-linguistics

• Indo-Iranians, a prehistoric people
  • Indo-Aryan languages
  • Indo-Aryan peoples, people speaking the Indo-Aryan languages
  • Iranian languages
  • Iranian peoples, people speaking the Iranian languages
    • People from the Aria region of Parthia, once believed to be the ancestral home of the Persian people
    • People from Ariana, the larger area that Aria was regarded as a part of
    • Inhabitants of the Sasanian Empire, the name of which in Middle Persian, Eran Shah, means Aryan Empire
• Proto-Indo-Europeans, in works published in the 19th century and early 20th century
• Aryan race (dated), a racial grouping used in the late 19th to mid-20th century to describe peoples of European and Western Asian heritage
• Nordic race (dated), a racialist concept called "Nordicism" developed by Ariosophy and later adopted by the Nazis
• White people, in neo-Nazism, i.e. peoples belonging to the Western or European branch of the Indo-European peoples
• Nordic aliens or Aryan aliens
• Aryan language (disambiguation)
• Aryan religion (disambiguation)

People

• Arya (name), an Indian given name (including a list of persons with the name)
• Arya (actor) (born 1980), south Indian actor

Organizations

• Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda
• Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist street gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States
  • Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
• Aryan Guard, a neo-Nazi group based in Alberta, Canada
• Aryan League, an Iranian Neo-Nazi political party; See List of neo-Nazi organizations
• Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization
• White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi white separatist organization

Films

• Arya (2004 film), a Telugu Tollywood film starring Allu Arjun
• Arya (2007 film), a Tamil film starring R. Madhavan and Bhavana
• Arya 2, a 2009 Telugu film
• Aryan (1988 film)
• Aryan (2014 film)
• Aryan: Unbreakable
• The Aryan, 1915 American silent film

Places

• Herat, Afghanistan, a city in Northwest Afghanistan
• Varian, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
• Aryan, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Aryan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Arya (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Other uses

• Arya (Buddhism), a concept in Buddhism
• Arya: A Philosophical Review, a monthly periodical published in India from 1914 to 1921
• Arya metre, a poetic metre used in Sanskrit and Prakrit verse
• Arya F.C., an Iranian football club

See also

• Ari (name) (Aryeh), an Aramaic given name used in a blessing in the Bible
• Aria (disambiguation)
• Arian (disambiguation)
• Ariane (rocket family), a series of space vehicles
• Arrian (86 A.D. – 2nd century A.D.), Greek historian
• Aryanization (Nazism), in Nazism, the expulsion of "non-Aryans"
• Arya Vaisya (disambiguation), several castes
• Aryn (disambiguation)