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Mari El, [a] officially the Mari El Republic, [b] is a republic of Russia. It is in the European region of the country, along the northern bank of the Volga River , and administratively part of the Volga Federal District .
Within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the flag adorned the Russian SFSR flag with the republic's name on the bottom.. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union the newly founded Mari El Republic adopted a blue-white-red horizontal tricolor with a Mari cultural symbol offset to the hoist with "Mari El" written in Mari underneath.
The Mari (/ ˈ m ɑːr i / MAR-ee), [a] also formerly known as the Cheremis or Cheremisses, [b] [7] [8] are a Finno-Ugric people in Eastern Europe, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. [7] They live mostly in the Mari El republic, with significant minorities in Bashkortostan, Perm Krai, Tatarstan and Udmurtia. [7]
The Mari or Cheremis (Russian: черемисы, cheremisy; Tatar: Çirmeş) have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics. The Mari people consists of three different groups: the Meadow Mari ...
Meadow Mari comprise the majority of Mari in the Mari El republic. [1] [2] They live on the right bank of the Volga river, while the Hill Mari people live on the left bank. The ethnogenesis of these two subgroups, and formation of distinct dialects, probably took place in the 14th century. Meadow Mari comprise the majority of Mari, and their ...
Kilemary (Russian: Килема́ры; Hill Mari: Кӹлемар, Kÿlemar; Meadow Mari: Килемар, Kilemar) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Kilemarsky District of the Mari El Republic, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 4,073. [2]
Mari religion (Mari: Чимарий йӱла, romanized: Čimarii jüla), also called Mari paganism, is the ethnic religion of the Mari people, a Volga Finnic ethnic group based in the republic of Mari El, in Russia. The religion has undergone changes over time, particularly under the influence of neighbouring monotheisms.
The Mari Autonomous Oblast was created on November 4, 1920, as a region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1936 it was re-established as the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , which dissolved in 1990, then developing into the modern Mari El Republic within Russian Federation .