The Dinaric race, also known as the Adriatic race, were terms used by certain physical anthropologists in the early to mid-20th century[1][2][3] to describe the perceived predominant phenotype of the contemporary ethnic groups of southeast Europe. According to the discredited theories of physical anthropologist Carleton Coon, the Dinaric race was most commonly found among the populations in the Balkans and Carpathians, such as Montenegrins, Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats, Ghegs, Slovaks, Romanians, Hungarians, Western Ukrainians, and Southern Poles.[4] Additionally, in Northern Europe, the South Germans were also identified[by whom?] as having Dinaric characteristics.[5]
Germans were predominantly Nordic , while the southern Germans belonged to the Alpine and Dinaric races