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However, in 1617, the history of Karelians underwent a significant change as Russia ceded to Sweden, along with other territories, the eastern part of the Karelian Isthmus, Ladoga Karelia and modern-day North Karelia. This meant that the majority of Karelians were again living in one country, yet it did not bring peace to the Karelian people.
White Karelia (sometimes the Finnish or Karelian term "Viena Karelia", or in some English-language sources, "White Sea Karelia", is used) is the northern part of East Karelia and Olonets Karelia is the southern part. Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Tver Karelians. View of Lappeenranta, South Karelia.
The earliest book of the Bible to be translated in Karelian dates to the 19th century, however the Lord's Prayer is known to have been translated already in the 16th century into Karelian. There have been recently new efforts to create translations into the Karelian language, and there exists two full New Testament translations in Karelian ...
Karelians have faced multiple hardships in history while developing a strong sense of identity. As a result the evacuations in the 1940s, they also live in a diaspora across Finland. Due these factors, some, such as journalist Ilkka Malmberg and author Heikki Hietamies , have referred to Karelians as the "Jews of Finland".
The coat of arms of Karelia, first used in 1562 Map of North Karelia (green) and South Karelia (yellow) regions, border of the historical province of Karelia in red. Karelia (Finnish: Karjala) is a historical province of Finland, consisting of the modern-day Finnish regions of South Karelia and North Karelia plus the historical regions of Ladoga Karelia and the Karelian isthmus, which are now ...
The elk is a common image in many Baltic Finnic petroglyphs. [note 1]Baltic Finnic paganism, or Baltic Finnic polytheism was the indigenous religion of the various of the Baltic Finnic peoples, specifically the Finns, Estonians, Võros, Setos, Karelians, Veps, Izhorians, Votes and Livonians, prior to Christianisation.
The Karelians did not organise their own military, and shortly after, the Bolsheviks occupied the town with no resistance. The presence of Bolsheviks in the region would mean for the Bolshevik policies to be active, leading to Prodrazverstka. The local peasantry would then rebel in the East-Karelian uprising. The uprising saw help from the ...
By the beginning of the 20th century, the largest number of Tver Karelians lived in Bezhetsky, Vesyegonsky, Vyshnevolotsky, Novotorzhsky, partly in Tversky, Zubtsovsky, Kashinsky uyezds. [1] According to the 1926 census, the Tver Karelians numbered 140,567 people, of which more than 95% spoke the Karelian language. Karelian villages of the Tver ...