Historical Maps of
Finnish and Finno-Ugric People (1935)
Complete Uralic World
Guide
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Welcome to Finnish History through this collection of maps which show the vast area occupied by Finns and their relations over millennia. Long before Russian invasions of the second millennium began, Finns roamed the vast area between the Ural Mountains and Norway. This was their hunting and fishing land, where permanent and temporary settlements were spread across thousands of kilometers of wilderness full of rivers, lakes, meadows, forests, with their riches of fish and game. They traded with intermediaries along the way and goods traveled enormous distances in this way - reaching all the way to the Middle East. Linguistic cousins of Baltic Finns constituted the more permanent inhabitants, at least in the regions between Karelia and Ural Mountains. Russians, who were landless, wanted to take the land from the Finns, and have continued to do so up to the latest grab in 1944, sanctioned by Roosevelt and Churchill - to their eternal shame.
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Here is an example of map:
migration
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