Aryana Vaeja. The last common Indo-European homeland was on the south Russian steppes between the Dnieper and Ural Rivers. However, sometime after 3000 BCE, a group of Indo-Europeans, calling themselves “Aryans,” migrated northward and eastward into a land they later named Aryana Vaeja. that is, the “cradleland of the Aryans.” This territory comprised that part of the Eurasian steppes between the Volga River and southwestern Siberia (Boyce 1979, 2), and all Aryans lived there until about 2000 BCE. It was…..