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unusual facts about Finno-Ugric peoples


Finno-Ugric peoples

A study of Population Genetics of Finno-Ugric speaking humans in North Eurasia carried out between 2002–2008 in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Helsinki showed most of the Finno-Ugric speaking populations possess amalgamation of West and East Eurasian gene pools, genetic drift, and recurrent founder effect.


Austerlitz

Robert Austerlitz (1923 - 1994), linguist, specialist in the Proto-Finno-Ugric language

Grivnik brigade

They beat back both forces, forcing the Finno-German troops to retire to the city of Kestenga, near Lake Topozero in September 1941.

Piae Cantiones

It was compiled by Jacobus Finno (Latin form) or Jaakko Suomalainen (Finnish form), a clergyman who was headmaster of the cathedral school at Turku.

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (Russian Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; January 21, 1889, Turja north of Syktyvkar, Yarensk uyezd, Vologda Governorate (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi), Russian Empire – February 11, 1968, Winchester, Massachusetts) was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi (Finno-Ugric region of Russia).

The Legend of Diyes

Some representatives of Diies had settled on the banks of the Volga River, in the neighborhood of the Finno-Ugrians and Dievo Castle mound became a small settlement close to the future Yaroslavl.

Võro

Võro language, a language belonging to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages of Estonia


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