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• Karelians — Infobox Ethnic group group = Karelias population = 504,000 region1 = RUS pop1 = c 140,000 [official Russian records, see Minahan pp. 369] ref1 = region2 = FIN pop2 = c 140,000 [Finnish records of people born in Karelia, the areas ceded to the… …   Wikipedia

• Karelians —    Ethnic group. The Karelians or Karjalaiset live in the borderlands of southeastern Finland and northwestern Russia, and are the titular minority of Kareliya. In their home republic, they account for less than a 10th of the region’s population; …   Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire — is a book about the small nations of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russia and some other post Soviet states of today. It was published in Estonian in 1991 and in English in 2001.The foreword of the book explains the book s… …   Wikipedia

• Demography of the Soviet Union — Soviet Union This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the Soviet Union …   Wikipedia

• Origin of the name Kainuu — has been a disputed subject among Finnish historians and linguistics. Kainuu is a region of Finland. The reason for the controversy is the speculated connection between areas known as Kainuu and Kvenland, both historical lands in Fennoscandia.… …   Wikipedia

• Finnish–Novgorodian wars — The Finnish–Novgorodian wars[citation needed] were a series of conflicts that took place between Finnic tribes in eastern Fennoscandia called Yem , and the Republic of Novgorod from the 11th or 12th century to early 13th century. The wars seem to …   Wikipedia

• Aunus expedition — The Aunus expedition was an attempt by Finnish volunteers to occupy parts of East Karelia in 1919, during the Russian Civil War. Aunus is the Finnish name for Olonets Karelia. This expedition was one of many Finnic kinship wars ( heimosodat )… …   Wikipedia

• Academic Karelia Society — The Academic Karelia Society (AKS) (Akateeminen Karjala Seura) was a Finnish elitist nationalist and Finno Ugric activist organization aiming at the growth and improvement of newly independent Finland, founded by academics and students of the… …   Wikipedia

• Uralic languages — Family of more than 30 languages spoken by some 25 million people in central and northern Eurasia. A primary division is between the Finno Ugric languages, which account for most of the languages and speakers, and the Samoyedic languages. The… …   Universalium

• Karelia (historical province of Finland) — Karelia (historically also Swedish Karelia ) is a historical province of Finland. It refers to the Western Karelia that during the second millennium have been under western dominance, religiously and politically. Western, i.e. Finnish Karelia is… …   Wikipedia

• Military history of Finland — Contents 1 Prehistory 2 Early Middle Ages 3 Finland as a part of Sweden 4 Autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland …   Wikipedia