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  Many Karelias — Virtual Finland
At that time the Karelians lived scattered across a broad area stretching from the southeast corner of present-day Finland eastwards to the Karelian isthmus, and in the north from the northern edge of Lake Ladoga to Lake Onega and on to the shores of the White Sea.
North Karelian attempts to strengthen the sense of a Karelian identity have drawn on the Orthodox faith and the traditions of Border Karelia just across the border to the east, while South Karelia has seen itself as heir to the economic and cultural heritage of Viipuri and its hinterland.
Karelian settlement in pre-revolutionary Russian Karelia was divided between the provinces of Archangel in the north and Olonets in the south.
virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/karjala.html   (3285 words)

  
  The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Karelians in the Novgorod region live in the district of Valdai and there are Karelians in the district of Lodeinoye Polye in the region of St. Petersburg.
This Karelian language, which used the Cyrillic alphabet, was introduced to the Karelians in the Karelian ASSR and Tver region in 1938--39.
The written language in the Karelian ASSR was Russian or Finnish, and Russian in Tver and elsewhere in Russia.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/karelians.shtml   (2193 words)

  
 Kalevala
However, in Finland the impact of the Kalevala, as an example of the heroic past of the people, was far deeper that in any other country.
It started a vogue called Karelianism and became part of the emerging Finnishness.
The Kalevala begins with an account of the Creation - from a broken egg - and ends with an interpretation of the Virgin Birth.
kirjasto.sci.fi /kalevala.htm   (1044 words)

  
 The Karelians
The Karelian literature during the Soviet regime was mostly Russian and Finnish.
The majority of Karelian writers continued to use the Finnish literary language which is similar to the northern dialect of Karelian.
In mid-1992 the regular state subsidy to the Writers’ Union of the Karelian Republic was annulled and it was reorganised on voluntary basis.
www.suri.ee /inf/karelen.html   (1119 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Karelians
The Karelian language is very closely related to the Finnish language, and particularly by Finnish linguists seen as a dialect of Finnish, although the variety spoken in East Karelia is usually seen as a proper language.
The dialect spoken in the South Karelian Region of Finland is considered to be part of the South Eastern dialects of the Finnish language.
Karelian culture and language was a major inspiration for the Fennoman movement, and the unification of East Karelia (under Russian sovereignty) with independent Finland was a major political issue in 20th century Finland.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Karelians   (840 words)

  
 World congress on language policies
Karelian was proclaimed to be incapable of playing an independent role and devising a separate writing for it was considered superfluous.
Karelian was replaced by Finnish in Kare-lian schools of the Karelian Republic and by Russian in the Karelian schools of Tver Re-gion.
It provided for the use of Karelian as a language of the local administration in the areas with compact Karelian population as well as in the spheres of education and culture.
www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller1/Krjuchkova.html   (1626 words)

  
 Karelians - Definition, explanation
The Karelians were one of many Finnic tribes that in, or before, the first millennium are believed to have migrated northward from mid-Balticum — possibly in connection with the Slavic and Germanic migrations.
The Karelian language is very closely related to the Finnish language, and particularly by Finnish linguists seen as a dialect of Finnish, although the variety spoken in East Karelia is usually seen as a proper language.
Karelian culture and language was a major inspiration for the Fennoman movement, and the unification of East Karelia (under Russian sovereignty) with independent Finland was a major political issue in 20th century Finland.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/k/ka/karelians.php   (697 words)

  
 The Karelians   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Karelians of Karelia live chiefly west of the St. Petersburg-Murmansk railway line in the Karelia their administrative centre is Petrozavodsk or Petroskoi.
The Tver Karelians inhabit areas west of Moscow where, they have enclaves in the districts of Likhoslavl, Spirovo, Rameshkovo and Maksatikha (in the 1960s they numbered approximately 90,000--100,000) A large group of Karelians lives in the districts of Vesyegonsky, Sandovo and Brusovo (in the 1960s approximately 20,000).
Karelian belongs to the North group of the Baltic-Finnic language, with the closest related language being Finnish.
russia.rin.ru /guides_e/4996.html   (592 words)

  
 Karelians information - Search.com
The tension between the Lutheran Swedish government and Orthodox Karelians triggered a population movement from the Swedish Karelia towards the region of Tver in Russia, forming the Tver-Karelian minority.
[1] The dialect spoken is the South Karelian Region of Finland is considered to be part of the South Eastern dialects of the Finnish language.
The dialect spoken in the Karelian Isthmus before World War II and the Ingrian language are also seen as part of this dialect group although sometimes in Finland wrongly called Karelian dialect.
webshots.search.com /reference/Karelians   (823 words)

  
 Rare Breed Network: Karelian Bear Dog Standard
The Karelian Bear Dog is primarily used to hunt bear and elk when they are available, although they have also been used to hunt smaller animals when big game was scarce.
The Karelian Bear Dog is a medium-sized, sturdily-built, Spitz-type dog, with a triangle-shaped head, prick ears, and a harsh, straight, fl or fl and white coat of medium length.
Karelians are normally aggressive with other dogs, particularly in their own territory, so they do not work well in a pack.
www.rarebreed.com /breeds/karelian/karelian_ukc_std.html   (1485 words)

  
 Republic of Karelia Summary
The Karelian language belongs to the Baltic Finnish group, and is closest to Finnish, with its "Karelian dialects"; being spoken in the two eastern Finnish provinces of South Karelia (Etelä-Karjala) and North Karelia (Pohjois-Karjala).
Karelia is populated chiefly by Russians (73.6% of the population) and (ethnically Finnic) Karelians (10.0%).
The Karelian language is close to Finnish, and in recent years, it has been considered by some authorities as a dialect of Finnish.
www.bookrags.com /Republic_of_Karelia   (2291 words)

  
 Karelia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was from oral traditions among the Karelians that the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, was compiled in the 19th cent.
The Karelian area of the Russian Empire was economically backward and was often a place of exile for political prisoners.
In 1920 an autonomous oblast, known as the Karelian Workers’ Commune, was set up in E Karelia; in 1923 it was made into the Karelian Autonomous SSR, which, after the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939–40, incorporated most of the territory ceded by Finland to the USSR.
www.bartleby.com /65/ka/Karelia.html   (487 words)

  
 The Mammoth Times   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Karelian Bear Dog training is not so much a matter of memorization of an exercise (retrievers retrieving or border collies shepherding) or the tendency to repeat patterns after positive reinforcement techniques.
However, Karelians are brave and primitive, designed by survival, so they are perfectly able to hunt silently, singly, and communicate with their master noiselessly.
While the Karelians might not be a household word associated with avalanche work, at least one member of their breed, Grizzly, shows great promise-after just one brief session in the snow at Mammoth.
www.mammothtimes.com /articles/2006/03/16/front/1mtcoverkarelianbeardogs.txt   (1833 words)

  
 Karelian
Later this year it will be six decades since the first time that the Karelians were forced, in autumn 1939, to leave the districts that had been their home for thousands of years.
I know that in recent times especially the Karelians have had much room in their hearts for those thousands of Kosovars who have had to leave their home districts and seek sanctuary from the war as homeless refugees.
Karelian culture must be seen as a question of identity, as an ability to feel a sense of affinity through the same tradition and the same cultural heritage.
www.tpk.fi /ahtisaari/puheet-1999/P990619.karen.html   (2003 words)

  
 Bear Bells with a Bark and a Bite, Alaska Science Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A properly trained Karelian bear dog will guard homes, camps, and people by warning bears away, according to Hunt, a biologist with federal, state and private agencies for 20 years in Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and Canada.
Karelian bear dogs are handsome descendants of elk hounds with the body of a husky, right down to the curlicue tail.
She hopes Karelians will be used by the public and by government agencies as tools to avoid bear encounters and to adversely condition problem bears.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF12/1246.html   (657 words)

  
 History of Karelia and Helulia village
The name "Korela" has originated, possibly, from "Koru ela" ("she ate bark" in Russian) - Karelian soil is very rocky and it was extremely difficult to cultivate wheat there, therefore Karelians very often added powdered tree bark to flour when making bread, and that, probably, contributed to the formation of such a name.
Karelians were engaged in "slash-and-burn" agriculture - they picked a site, suitable for cultivation, in the forest, chopped down the trees there and piled them up on the cleared territory.
In 1187 Karelians together with the Novgorod army took a raid at the large Swedish city Sigtuna (the predecessor of modern Stockholm).
helyla.onego.ru /history_eng.html   (6326 words)

  
 Kalevala — The Finnish National Epic — Virtual Finland
Karelia was seen to be a treasure trove of poetry, an idyllic sanctuary of ancient myth and lifeways.
The fact that the Kalevala was sung and that its themes dealt with the fundamental questions of human existence have contributed to the fact that the Kalevala quickly became a significant source of inspiration for Finnish composers.
In 1890, Jean Sibelius was converted to Karelianism by the music of Robert Kajanus.
virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27022   (772 words)

  
 HISTORY
During the spring, their repertoire began to include songs in Karelian, so it seemed only appropriate to call the band Burlakat, a Karelian word that means "vagabonds" - a good expression of the band's spirit.
The new CD, Magie, contained even more songs in Karelian, as well as songs composed by the various members of the band, but the arrangements were still mostly the result of the combined efforts of all the band members.
In the autumn of 2004 Burlakat celebrated its 10th anniversary with a tour of Finland, and in the spring of 2005 the band went on a tour of Germany.
www.burlakat.fi /sivut/eng/historia2.html   (1002 words)

  
 Introduction
These seemingly minor Viena villages have played a significant role in Finnish cultural history, for it was a poem recorded by Daniel Europaeus in Hietajärvi that prompted Elias Lönnrot to change the structure of the Kalevala.
Rimpi, for its part, contributed significantly to the birth of Karelianism, an artistic movement that exerted a profound influence in many spheres of artistic endeavor in Finland in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Today the bardic villages are defined as those villages in Viena which still exist or are scheduled for revitalization, and which have been sources of the poetry in the Kalevala and the Kanteletar or contributed to the birth of Karelianism.
www.juminkeko.fi /viena/en/taustaa.html   (537 words)

  
 The Decades of Realism and National Roma... : National Romantic Karelianism
There the age of the Kalevala lives on in everyday chores, there a farmer's wife might recite spells in Kalevala metre while driving the cattle out to pasture.
Karelianism was the most important manifestation of National Romanticism in Finland.
The Kalevala, for which the Finland of the 1860s and R.W. Ekman had unsuccesfully tried to produce illustrations, became a deep source of inspiration for the artists of the 1890s.
www.fng.fi /fng/html4/en/ateneum/guide/cont/chap6/sect1/page55.htm   (261 words)

  
 Akonlahti
The villages on the shores of Lake Kiitehenjärvi have played a crucial role in both the creation of the Kalevala and the rise of Karelianism.
Blomstedt and Sucksdorff were architects who meticulously documented the Karelian building tradition and later published their work as a book which significantly influenced the rise of the National Romantic School in Finnish architecture.
The villages of Akonlahti were the only places in Viena besides Luvajärvi that Blomstedt and Sucksdorff visited on their trip, as they continued on from there to North Aunus.
www.juminkeko.fi /viena/en/akonlahti.html   (704 words)

  
 Finland Travel Information
The 25 years of Urho Kekkonen's presidency (1956-81) were a clever balancing act: Kekkonen kept a tight grip on domestic power, and managed to strengthen ties with Scandinavian siblings without alienating the big huggy bear to the east.
Sibelius and the nationalistic painter Akseli Gallén-Kallela fell under the spell of Karelianism, a movement going back to the folk songs Elias Lönnrot compiled for the national epic, the Kalevala in the 1830s.
It is closely related to Estonian and Karelian, and has common origins with Samoyed and the languages spoken in the Volga basin.
www.europeallhotels.com /info/finland-info.html   (3228 words)

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