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Several old Scandinavian sagas and chronicles refer to Karelia sometimes as Karjalabotn, [11] Kirjalabotnar, [12] or Kirjaland, [13] which means that Karelians and Karelia were known to the Vikings as early as the 7th century. Another mention of Karelians in Scandinavian sources is The Chronicle of Erik. [14]
Union of White Sea Karelians. In 1906, the Union of White Sea Karelians (Finnish: Wienan karjalaisten liitto) was created. The Union's main goal was to improve the life of the common Karelians and additionally develop their own national identity. [10] The union was temporarily dissolved in 1911 after series of repressions done by the local ...
Karelians (Finnish: karjalaiset, IPA: [ˈkɑrjɑˌlɑi̯set]), also known as Finnish Karelians or Karelian Finns, are a subgroup of the Finnish people, traditionally living in Finnish Karelia. Karelians speak eastern dialects of the Finnish language : the South Karelian dialects are spoken in South Karelia , while the eastern Savonian dialects ...
The earliest historical accounts of conflicts involving Finnish tribes, such as Tavastians, Karelians, Finns proper and Kvens, have survived in Icelandic sagas and in German, Norwegian, Danish and Russian chronicles as well as in Swedish legends and in birch bark manuscripts.
Russians first mentioned Karelians in 1143, they called Karelians "Korela". [ 23 ] Sweden 's interest in Karelia began a centuries-long struggle with Novgorod (later Russia ) that resulted in numerous border changes following the many wars fought between the two, the most famous of which is the Pillage of Sigtuna of 1187 .
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 ...
This list of Karelians lists both people from Republic of Karelia, Finnish Karelians and other people of Karelian ancestry. People from Republic of Karelia
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 ...