The Baltic Finnic or Balto-Finnic peoples, also referred to as the Baltic Sea Finns, Baltic Finns, sometimes Western Finnic and often simply as the Finnic peoples, are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Balto-Finnic languages.They include the Finns, Estonians (including Võros and Setos), Karelians (including Ludes and Olonets), …

Baltic Finnic peoples, the Finnic peoples historically inhabiting the area on the northeastern side of the Baltic sea; Ships and related. Baltic; Baltic, a German emergency tow vessel; CSS Baltic was an iron and cottonclad sidewheeler ship built in 1860; HMS Baltic, Royal Navy cutter, formerly the Russian Opyt

Small numbers of Ethnic Germans began to settle in the area in the late 12th century when traders and Christian missionaries began to visit the coastal lands inhabited by tribes who spoke Finnic and Baltic languages.Systematic conquest and settlement of these lands was completed during the Northern Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries which resulted in creation of the Terra …

Finnic mythologies are the various mythologies of the Baltic Finns. Finnish mythology; Estonian mythology; See also. Baltic mythology; Bear worship; Dorvyzhy; Hungarian mythology; Mastorava; Rock carvings at Alta; References and notes. Abercromby, John (1898). Pre- and Proto-historic Finns. D. Nutt. Herman Hofberg, "Lapparnas Hednatro"

The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a modern unofficial geopolitical term, typically used to group three countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, and the OECD.The three sovereign states on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea are sometimes referred to as the "Baltic nations", less often and in historical ...

The Finnic (Fennic), or more precisely Balto-Finnic (Balto-Fennic; Baltic Finnic, Baltic Fennic) languages, constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples.There are around 7 million speakers who live mainly in Finland and Estonia.. Traditionally, eight Finnic languages have been recognized. The major modern representatives …

North Germanic peoples, commonly called Scandinavians, Nordic peoples and in a medieval context Norsemen, are a Germanic ethnolinguistic group of the Nordic countries. They are identified by their cultural similarities, common ancestry and common use of the Proto-Norse language from around 200 AD, a language that around 800 AD became the Old Norse language, …

The Gulf of Finland (Finnish: Suomenlahti; Estonian: Soome laht; Russian: Фи́нский зали́в, tr. Finskiy zaliv, IPA: [ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif]; Swedish: Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea.It extends between Finland to the north and Estonia to the south, to Saint Petersburg in Russia to the east, where the river Neva drains into it.

Terminology. The Volga Finns are not to be confused with the Finns.The term is a back-derivation from the linguistic term "Volga-Finnic", which in turn reflects an older usage of the term "Finnic", applying to most or the whole of the Finno-Permic group, while the group nowadays known as Finnic were referred to as "Baltic-Finnic".. Mari

The Uralic-speaking world is the part of the world where Uralic languages are either official, co-official, or significantly used, comprising the three independent nation states with a national majority that speaks a Finno-Ugric language: Finland and Estonia, which are inhabited by Baltic Finnic peoples, and Hungary, which is majority Magyar.. The Finno-Ugric countries work …