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Finnic peoples migrated westward from very approximately the Volga area into northwestern Russia and (first the Sami and then the Baltic Finns) into Scandinavia, though scholars dispute the timing. The ancestors of the Perm Finns moved north and east to the
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appear in a few written texts starting from about two millennia ago in association with peoples of northern Europe. The first known use of this name to refer to the people of what is now Finland is in the 10th-century
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see page 219, para Ethnology and Language.—The term Finns has a wider application than Finland, being, with its adjective Finnic or Finno-Ugric or Ugro-Finnic......&.... (5) The Ugrian Finns include the
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began to divide into their current diversity by the sixth century, and had coalesced into their current nations by the sixteenth.
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in Sweden, in an area that is not known to have been Finnic-speaking. The name was also applied to what is now
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were also considered to be a branch of Finns (as "Ugrian Finns"), but such terminology is not in use anymore.
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with scarce historical references and therefore rather questionable etymology. Its probable cognates, like
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inconsistently. However, most of the time they seem to mean northern dwellers with a mobile life style.
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Ways of Describing Nenets and Khanty "Character" in 19th Century Russian Ethnographic Literature
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The scope of the terms "Finn" and "Finnic" varies by context. They can refer to the
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in a more toponymical approach. Yet another theory postulates that the words
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Other etymological interpretations associate the ethnonym "Finns" with
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in Norway, which can be understood as "Sami country", but also
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of Russia. The last two include the Finnic peoples of the
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The Finnic nations identified by language (west to east):
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Index

Finns
Baltic Finnic peoples

Sami
Baltic Finns
Volga Finns
Perm Finns
Finno-Permic
Volga River
Finns
Estonians
Mordvins
Mari
Udmurts
Komis
Sami
Baltic Finns
Finland
Scandinavia
Estonia
Northwest Russia
Sami
Fennoscandia
Volga Finns
Perm Finns
Komi-Permyak Okrug
Russian republics
Komi
Mari El
Mordovia

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