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Then the rebellion spread over all Karelian lands, which sufficiently weakened Novgorodian influence. [15] In 1323, Karelians suffered a forceful sundering as Sweden and Novgorod divided Karelian lands and their inhabitants by signing a peace agreement. The agreement transferred governance of all western Karelian lands to Swedish sovereignty ...
Kristina Karjalainen, Karelian-Lithuanian model born in Estonia; Aleksandr Kokko, Ingrian football player; Leo Komarov, Finno-Russian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League; Yelena Kondulainen, Ingrian actress; Timothy Kopra, astronaut; Robert Kurvitz, Estonian-Karelian novelist, musician, and video game developer
The settlers spoke Karelian and Savonian dialects of Finnish. The older inhabitants of the Ingria, the Ingrians, have their own language which is related to the Karelian language and the south-eastern dialects of Finnish. [7] Karelians evacuated from the part of Finnish Karelia ceded to Russia were resettled all over Finland. Today about one ...
The modern Karelian Republic was founded as an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR, by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) on 27 June 1923 and by the Decree of the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars of 25 July 1923, from the Karelian Labour Commune.
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 Karelian people's presence can be dated back to the 7th millennium BC–6th millennium BC. [1] The region itself is rich with fish, lakes, and minerals, and because of that its holder has changed throughout history, and to this day it is divided between the Republic of Finland and the Russian Federation.
The inhabitants of Karelian provinces historically belonging to Finland are known as Karelians. Confusingly, the same name is used also of a closely related but distinct ethnic group living mostly in East Karelia , earlier also in some of the territories Finland ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944.
Although the number of Tver Karelian people was about 14,633 in 2002, very few (about 25 in one census) named the dialect as their primary language. The number of Tver Karelians was 7,394 in 2010 [ 2 ] and 2,764 in 2020.