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Nyen became the trading centre of Ingria, and in 1642 was made its administrative centre. In 1656 a Russian attack badly damaged the town, and the administrative centre was moved to Narva in neighbouring Swedish Estonia. In the early 18th century the area was reconquered by Russia in the Great Northern War after a century under Swedish possession.
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Swedish Ingria (Swedish: Svenska Ingermanland, land of Ingaevones) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1583 to 1595 and then again from 1617 to 1721, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Nystad. Ingria was ceded to Sweden by Russia together with the County of Kexholm by the Treaty of Stolbovo in 1617.
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Ingria (Russian: Ингрия, Ингерманландия, Ижорская земля; Finnish: Inkeri, Inkerinmaa; Swedish: Ingermanland; Estonian: Ingeri, Ingerimaa) is a historical region in what is now northwestern European Russia.
Jul 12, 2017 · View PDF. This article discusses the province of Ingria, part of Sweden from 1617 until 1704, and its position in the Swedish Kingdom in the late 17th century. The main purpose is to examine how Sweden implemented its centralization and unification policy in Ingria and what reactions it triggered at the local level.
- Kasper Kepsu
- 2017
Nyenschantz was built in 1611 to establish Swedish rule in Ingria, which had been annexed from the Tsardom of Russia during the Time of Troubles. The town of Nyen, which formed around Nyenschantz, became a wealthy trading center and a capital of Swedish Ingria during the 17th century.
Apr 28, 2020 · Under Swedish control, Ingria was settled by Finnish-speaking, Lutheran-practicing peasants from the eastern parts of the Swedish Kingdom, and a community of Ingrian Finns was established. Sweden’s control over Ingria lasted less than a century; by the early 1700s, Peter the Great had reclaimed the territory in the Great Northern War (1700 ...
Aleksandr Ivan Pereswetoff-Morath Stockholm University, Sweden Straddling cultural and political borders in Swedish Ingria: the case of Benjamin Barohn (BaSen Ivanov) 1. Among the interpreters from Russian serving the Swedish-Novgorodian Alliance we find a native speaker of French, BaYen Ivanov syn, who had earlier served in the Posol’skij ...
