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BJARM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Therefore, Bjarmland was in essence a very large area which was controlled and settled by Veps (Vepsä people). |
 | | Culturally, the Bjarm and Vepsä are connected eastward in the sense that they tended to use dogs as draught animals, and as Adam Bremen states, "also used in battle." The use of dogs as draught animals comes all the way from northern Siberia and the uncharted Bjarm lands, westward. |
 | | The safe transport of the products of the silver mines in the south controlled by the Kaliffs declined with their loss of control, and there was therefore less to trade. |
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