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  2. Karelians - Wikipedia

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    Karelians (Karelian: karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset; Finnish: karjalaiset; Swedish: kareler, karelare; Russian: карелы, romanized: karely) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russia.

  3. List of Karelians - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Karelians (Finns) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar - Wikipedia

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    Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar (8 May 1771 – 29 December 1846) was a Finnish-Karelian folksinger, seer, and cunning woman. She is regarded as the most noted among the known Finnish-Karelian folksingers of her sex. She was a strong influence on Kanteletar by Elias Lönnrot.

  6. Finland under Swedish rule - Wikipedia

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    King Birger letter for Karelian women from 1316 is Finland's oldest surviving original document. The bishop Henry and Lalli. The starting point of the Swedish rule is under a large amount of uncertainty. It is connected to the efforts of the Catholic Church to expand the faith in the Eastern Baltic Sea region and to Northern Crusades.

  7. Republic of Karelia - Wikipedia

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    In the 1930s Karelian and Veps languages gained a writing system, but during the Stalinist repressions many books in Veps and Karelian were burned and cultural figures were deported. [ 108 ] After the creation of the Karelian Labour Commune many American and Canadian finns moved to Karelia and began creating new literature.