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Karelianët ( karelianisht: karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset, finlandisht: karjalaiset, suedisht: kareler, karelare, rusisht: Карелы) janë një grup etnik Fino-baltike që janë indigjenë në rajonin historik të Karelisë, i cili sot është i ndarë midis Finlandës dhe Rusisë.
Finnish Karelia is a historical province of Finland and is now divided between Finland and Russia, often called just Karjala in Finnish. The eastern part of this chiefly Lutheran area was ceded to Russia after the Winter War of 1939–40.
The ancestors of Karelians and Finns crossed the Baltic Sea from Estonia into Finland between 1500 BC and 1300 BC. The mining of copper in Karelia began between 1 AD and 1000 AD. The ethnic composition of Karelia at the end of the 1st millennium consisted of Balto-Finnic peoples. Middle Ages
Oct 17, 2016 · The native inhabitants of the Republic of Karelia, one of Russia’s most beautiful regions located along the border with Finland, are seeking ways to maintain their traditional culture in the...
The Karelians are known for their old epic and lyric folk poetry, which the Finnish scientist Elias L ö nnrot collected (both in Finnish and in Russian Karelia) and published in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Kalevala, which is called the Finnish national epic or the Finnish-Karelian epic. The Karelians are also known for their ...
Karelians are a Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russia. Karelians living in Russian Karelia are considered a distinct ethnic group closely related to Finnish Karelians, who are considered a subset of Finns.
