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The people of the Dinaric Alps are on record as being the tallest in the world, with an average male adolescent height of 185.6 cm (6 ft 1.1 in). The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have the highest recorded average of any single country, with 183.9 cm average for men and 171.8 cm for women. Mountain passes
- 2,694 m (8,839 ft)
- Maja Jezercë in Albania
The Noric race ( German: Norische Rasse) was a racial category proposed by the anthropologist Victor Lebzelter. The "Noric race" was supposed to be a sub-type of the Dinaric race more Nordic in appearance than standard Dinaric peoples. [4] The term derived from Noricum, a province of the Roman Empire roughly equivalent to southern Austria and ...
Apr 12, 2017 · The region of the Dinaric Alps has historically been renowned for the remarkable body size of its inhabitants [1,2] and from the anthropological view, it may well be the most fascinating area in the world. At the end of the 19th century, the mean height of people from Montenegro was 177 cm and those from Herzegovina 175–176 cm .
- Pavel Grasgruber, Stevo Popović, Dominik Bokuvka, Ivan Davidović, Sylva Hřebíčková, Pavlína Ingrová,...
- 2017
Dec 18, 2017 · The Dinaric Alps are a region of multiple countries in Europe that covers Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Italy. A study found that the adolescents in this region are taller than the Dutch, with an average height of 185.6 centimeters (6 foot 1 inch) for males and 171 centimeters (5 foot 6 inches) for females. Learn more about this region and its people.
- Esther Inglis-Arkell
The Dinaric Alps are bounded approximately by the Soča (Isonzo) and Sava rivers (north), the Drina River (south), the Kolubara, Ibar, and Sitnica rivers (east), and the Adriatic Sea (west). The Dinaric Alps rise to 8,839 feet (2,694 meters) at Mount Jezercës (Maja e Jezercës) in the North Albanian Alps (Prokletije).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 21, 2022 · Our research in the Dinaric Alps has filled a long, century-old gap in the information on the secular trend in body height in the region. Including the newly analyzed data from Albania, Serbia, and Slovenia, we obtained an overview of the regional variability in stature over an area of ~230,000 km 2, across eight different countries or ...
Jun 9, 2015 · The Origin and Development of the Concept of a "Dinaric Race". The concept of a Dinaric race began with Joseph Deniker, back in the heyday of racial cartography in the late 1800s. In his book The Races of Man (1900), Deniker describes the Dinaric race as one of six principal races among the living peoples of Europe: Deniker's (1900) map of the ...
