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  Ingria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historically Ingria (Finnish: Inkeri, Russian: Izhora, Swedish: Ingermanland) comprises the area along the basin of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipsi in the south-west, and Lake Ladoga in the north-east.
Ingria never formed a state; the Ingrians can hardly be said to have been a nation, although their "nationality" was recognized in the Soviet Union, and as an ethnos the Ingrians dying out together with their language.
Ingria became a Swedish dominion in the 1580s, was returned to Russia by the Treaty of Teusina (1595), and after the Ingrian War again ceded to Sweden in the Treaty of Stolbova (1617).
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ingria   (773 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ingria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Historically Ingria (Inkeri) comprises the area along the basin of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipsi in South-West, and Lake Ladoga in North-East.
Ingria, or Ingermanland, was a dominion of Sweden from 1580 to 1595 and then again from 1617 to 1719, when it was ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad.
Ingria fell to Sweden in the 1580s, was returned to Russia by the Treaty of Teusina (1595), and again ceded to Sweden in the Treaty of Stolbovo (1617).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ingria   (729 words)

  
 Ingria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Historically Ingria (Inkeri) comprises the area along the basin of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipsi inSouth-West, and Lake Ladoga in North-East.
Ingria never came to form a state, the Ingrians can hardly be said to have been a nation, although their " nationality " was recognized in the Soviet Union, and asan ethnos the Ingrians are about to perishtogether with their language.
In the Viking age /late IronAge, from the 750s and on, Ingria was the bridgehead on the Varangian trade route to Eastern Europe.
www.therfcc.org /ingria-79135.html   (516 words)

  
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Historical Ingria or Ingermanland lies along the southern shore of the gulf of Finland and both banks of the river Neva.
With the peace treaty of Stolbova in 1617, Ingria was attached to the Swedish kingdom.
During the early eighteenth century, Russia re-conquered Ingria, and the new capital St. Petersburg was constructed in the region.
www.inkeri.com /english.html   (1831 words)

  
 Ingria: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Ingria
Historically Ingria (Inkeri) comprises the area along the basin of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River[?], Lake Peipsi[?] and Lake Pskov[?] in South-West, and Lake Ladoga in North-East.
In 1710 Ingria was designated as the Province of Saint Petersburg (in 1927 the Leningrad Province, but in 1991 Leningrad changed name again back to Saint Petersburg).
These populations were all wiped out of Ingria during the Soviet period, outnumbered by a numerous Russian population.
www.encyclopedian.com /in/Ingria.html   (266 words)

  
 III World Congress of the Finno-Ugric Peoples, Helsinki 2000
Ingria Finns are a community of people historically formed at the shores of the Neva and the Gulf of Finland which is united by a common language - Finnish with a variety of dialects, a similar origin (Suomen sisu), unity of the traditional material and spiritual culture which has absorbed culture of the surrounding peoples.
The Ingria Finns were again not mentioned in documents of the Parliamentary hearings among the peoples which historically and ethnically formed in the territory of Russia.
Thus, the Ingria Finns turned up to be among the peoples on the globe destitute of their land, native country and only partially retaining traditions and culture of their ancestors.
www.suri.ee /kongress/kolmas/en/kirjan.html   (1453 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Swedish Ingria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Swedish attempts to introduce Lutheranism were met with repugnance by the Orthodox peasantry obliged to attend Lutheran services; converts were promised grants and tax reductions, but Lutheran gains were most of all due to voluntary resettlements from Savonia and Finnish Karelia.
In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital —; although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government.
The Ingrian flag Historically Ingria (Swedish Ingermanland, Finnish Inkeri, Russian Izhora) comprises the area along the basin of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipsi in South-West, and Lake Ladoga in North-East.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swedish-Ingria   (1738 words)

  
 Inkeri    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ingermanland or Ingria lies along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland and both banks of the river Neva.
The Ingrian Finns population consists of 90,000 persons, many live in Carelia, in the central region of Russian, in Central Asia, in Finland and in Estonia, in Sweden, in Canada, in the USA and in Australia.
Ingria fell to Sweden in the 1580s, was returned to Russia by the Treaty of Teusina (1595), and again ceded to Sweden in the Treaty of Stolbovo (1617) until 1719, when it was ceded again to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad during the Great Northern War.
www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=26   (1364 words)

  
 M/S Ingria - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945
Ingria was scheduled for Convoy HX 138 in July-1941, but did not sail - instead she joined the next convoy, HX 139, bound for Mersey with general cargo.
Ingria was in the fast section (SLF) which detached on May 19 and arrived Liverpool on May 25, while the slower section (SL) arrived on the 28th.
Mike says Ingria was in the convoy from departure Liverpool on July 1 until dispersed to continue her voyage to Capetown and Bombay unescorted.
www.warsailors.com /singleships/ingria.html   (1143 words)

  
 GeoNative - Ingria
Historikoki, Ingria edo Ingermanland (finlandieraz Inkeri) Finlandiako Golkoko lurraldea da gaur egungo Errusian, Sankt Petersburg hiriaren eta Ladoga lakuaren aldetik Estoniaraino iristen dena.
Historically Ingria comprises the area between the Gulf of Finland, the basin of the Neva (Estonia) and Lake Ladoga.
In the next 20 years, 110,000 people or 97% of the Finn population of Ingria were removed.
www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/ingria.html   (882 words)

  
 Vot, ihminen tahtoo kotimaalle; English summary
The wars between Sweden and Russia affected the population of Ingria in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Lutheran population of Ingria grew and during the 17th century it comprised 70% of the total population.
It resembles mostly the dialect spoken on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, opposite Kurkolanniemi.
helmer.hit.uib.no /Ingrisk/western.html   (3886 words)

  
 Vot, ihminen tahtoo kotimaalle; English summary
The Finnic languages and dialects of western Ingria survive only in the older generations, but they are still used to convey feelings, thoughts and human destinies.
Nevertheless, in the fairly limited region of western Ingria, where their villages mostly lie, their station and their share of the total population has been considerable up to the beginning of the 20th century.
The schools of Ingria became Russian in 1937 and at the same time Lutheran churches were abolished and publications in Finnish banned.
nora.hd.uib.no /Ingrisk/western.html   (3886 words)

  
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   The land to the East and South of the Gulf of Finland was called Ingria or Ingermanlandia and according to the Stolbovskoy treaty of peace it was joined to Sweden.
Novgorod boyards were forced to move from Ingria to other lands and Moscow boyards moved to their place.
Ingria had its banner based on flags of Scandinavian countries, for instance, the blue and yellow Swedish banner.
sloboda.fromru.com /historyeng.htm   (701 words)

  
 Norges Samemisjon - Inkerin Kirkko sin historie
In 1641 Ingria was turned to a diocese, Narva being the diocesan city.
Gradually the Church of Ingria was able to reorganize itself along previous lines, which was aided by The Law for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, published in 1832.
The land of Ingria was now under the Russian Government and the Church of Ingria was led by Germans.
www.samemisjonen.no /tema/inkerin_hist.php   (1652 words)

  
 Ingria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In the 12th century, Ingria was conquered by, and joined to, Novgorod.
It followed centuries of frequent wars, chiefly between Russians and Swedes, but also Danes and Teutonic Knights were many times involved.
The latter established a stronghold in Narva, supplied by the Russian castle Ivangorod on the opposite side of River Narva in 1492.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ingria   (646 words)

  
 
In 1240 the Order of the Brethen of the Sword had a fleeting success in Western Ingria Land, they conquered the territory and erected the stronghold of Koporje (Kaprio), which was captured by the Russians the next year.
The ethnic composition of Ingria Land went through major changes: in 1695 the native Ingrians made up 26.2 per cent and the newcomers 73.8 per cent of the population of Ingria Land.
The population of Ingria was 65 000, 90 per cent of whom were of Finno- Baltic origin, 75 per cent of whom were immigrants from Finland.
www.helsinki.fi /hum/sugl/proj/recfin/heinsoo.html   (5359 words)

  
 20.5.2002 - Renovation of St. Mary's church in St. Petersburg completed - Reconsecration of the church took place on ...
The church was consecrated by Bishop Aarre Kuukauppi of the Church of Ingria.
Today the Church of Ingria comprises almost 70 congregations, the majority of which are located in the environs of St. Petersburg and in Russian Karelia, but the most far-flung in Murmansk and in Irkutsk.
The activities of the Church of Ingria were suppressed completely in 1938, and St. Mary's church was closed.
www.evl.fi /english/news/stmary.htm   (688 words)

  
 Finland, Stalin and Germany in the 1930s — Virtual Finland
Thanks to these efforts, oppression in Ingria was even brought up in the British House of Commons, but this had even less impact on Stalin than the petition signed by more than a thousand prominent Europeans in defence of Finland’s constitutional rights had on Tsar Nicholas II in 1899.
In Ingria, use of Finnish was not allowed, literature was destroyed and no other ‘national’; language was adopted in its stead.
The 150,000 Finns living on the other side of the eastern border, the majority in Ingria, were stripped of all basic rights to their own national culture.
virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/before.html   (3974 words)

  
 Ingermanland, Ingria (incl. St.Petersburg)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ingermanland is situated between the Narva river (Estonia) in the west, Rajajoki (Finland) in the north, the shore of Ladoga in the east and the Lava river in the south.
Sweden regained Ingria (with Jama, Koporje, Ivangorod and Nöteborg) and Keksholm county.
The stamps were overprinted in 1921 with the text "Inkerin Hyväksi" (For the prosperity of Ingria) and were sold from 21.4.1921 at their nominal value as Charity stamps.
www.eccentrix.com /members/figge33/inkeri/ingria.htm   (2093 words)

  
 Ingria (Russia)
The Ingrian flag (which was official when the Ingrians had some authonomy in the 1920s and 30s) being yellow with a blue scandinavian cross with red finbrations; colours taken from the old arms of Ingria.
Ingria is not the same area as the parts of Finnish Karelia ceded in 1940.
Rather it was the coastal strip between Estonia and Finland (pre-1940 boundary), roughly contiguous to the St.
www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/ru-ingri.html   (525 words)

  
 BEYOND THE POINT OF NO RETURN
The territory of Votic settlement in the western part of Ingria has never been a secure place to live, mainly owing to the military expeditions of Russians, Swedes and Germans; already in the 9th century they were ruled by foreigners.
In 1989, eight hundred and twenty Izhorians could still be found in the western part of the Leningrad Province, between the Narva and Neva rivers; 302 of them still used their mother tongue.
The Izhorians who had been evacuated to Finland and returned in 1945 were scattered in the provinces of Central Russia, while Ingria was settled with Russian newcomers.
www.suri.ee /eup/beyond.html   (1325 words)

  
 E-inkeri
Ingria is situated between the Narva River and Lake Ladoga, in the administrative district of St. Petersburg.
The Ingrian singing tradition has been influenced by the Izhors - which are part of indigenous Ingrians - music and by the music of the Finns who were settled in the area in 17th century as well as by the polyphonic Slavic singing tradition.
In summer 2000 MeNaiset travelled around Ingria and participated in a local Midsummer feast, which all deeply helped the singers to understand the state of current culture in Ingria.
www.me-naiset.net /enkku/einker.htm   (260 words)

  
 Soome-Ugri Maailmakongress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Love to Ingria, their native land, respect of their mothertongue and the faith of their fathers and grandfathers – that’s what unites Ingrian Finns scattered all over the Globe.
As long as a Russian child born in the villages of Toksovo or Taitsy is educated in his/her own language and a Finnish child doesn’t hear a word in his own language, all the talk about equality of all peoples remain lipservice.
And in conclusion I want to say that Ingria is our native land and it is there that we should improve our life.
kongress.ugri.info /eng/cat-274/cat-310/article_id-221   (804 words)

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