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	Historical Karelia (Russia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Karelia is the area between Finland and Russia.
		However, autonomous East Karelia [both current and soviet] is just a small part of Russian Karelia, known as White Sea Karelia, or in other words, the area between the White Sea and the Finnish border.
		The area to the south of White Sea Karelia, between lakes Onega and Lagoda, is known as Aunus Karelia, named after the town with the Finnish name Aunus (in Russian: Олонец).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-10h.html (976 words)

	Karelia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karelia is the land of the Karelian people, that inhabitated vast areas in Northern Europe, of historical significance for Finland, Russia and Sweden.
		Karelia streches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland.
		Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Karelians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karelia (807 words)

	Karelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		White Karelia is the northern part of East Karelia and Olonets Karelia is the southernpart.
		Tver Karelia denotes thevillages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Karelians.
		The Karelian language is spoken in the Republic of Karelia andalso in the Tver Karelian villages.
	www.therfcc.org /karelia-55702.html (646 words)

	Brief historic info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In general it is similar to the territory (according to administrative and territorial division of the Russian Empire) of the four districts (Petrozavodsk, Olonets, Povenets, and Pudozh) of the Olonets province and Kem district of the Arkhangelsk province.
		In the southern and Olonets parts of Karelia close neighborhood of the Karelians and Russians caused interpenetration and that influenced the language and culture of the local Karelian population.
		By autumn 1944 the territory of Karelia was released.
	www.soros.karelia.ru /projects/1998/atlas/eng/ist.htm (2928 words)

	The 350th anniversary of Olonets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The town of Olonets is the administrative centre of Olonetsky district of the Republic of Karelia and one of the first and ancient cities of Karelia.
		In 1708 Olonets became a part of the Ingermanland province, then was attached to the Novgorod province, in 1784 it became the district town of Olonetsky region ruled by governor-general, and since 1801 it was the district city of Olonetsky province.
		Olonets is the centre of agricultural district which supplies cities of the republic with milk, meat, potatos, and vegetables.
	www.gov.karelia.ru /gov/Different/Dates/1999/14_e.html (367 words)

	Karelika \| Olonets
		Olonets has a favourable geopolitic position, it is "the southern gate" of the Republic of Karelia, the sort of "crossroads" of roads to Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Petrozavodsk, Murmansk, and Finland.
		During this period Olonets was a uniform trading, military and administrative centre of Karelia inhabited by peasants from country churchyards of Zaonezhie mostly engaged in trade and ironworks.
		In 1708 Olonets became a part of the Ingermanland province, then was attached to the Novgorod province, in 1784 it became the district town of Olonetsky region ruled by governor-general, and since 1801 it was the district city of Olonetsky province.
	www.karelika.ru /en/section.php?docId=7967 (508 words)

	Karelia. Tourism portal \| Regions of Karelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first record of Olonets is in the Charter Deed of Novgorod Duke Svjatoslav Olgovitch (1327), but several researchers of Scandinavian sagas still connect Olonets with Alaborg city first mentioned in "Saga of Halvdan, the Eistein’s son".
		The Olonets fortress lost its importance in 1721 when the border with Sweden was moved to the North.
		Olonets National Prilukin Museum possesses a large collection of authentic items, which can surely be interesting for people keen on traditional way of life and national art.
	www.ticrk.ru /en/regions/region_8080/settlement_8160.html (551 words)

	Karelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is currenty divided between the Russian Republic of Karelia, the Russian Leningrad Oblast, and two Regions of Finland, South Karelia and North Karelia.
		In the Karelian and Finnish languages Karelia is called Karjala; in Russian Карелия, and in Swedish Karelen.
		Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and Novgorod in the 13th century.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Karelia (1087 words)

	KARELIA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Karelia is the land of the Karelian people, that inhabitated vast areas in Northern_Europe, of historical significance for Finland, Russia and Sweden.
		Karelia streches from the White_Sea coast to the Gulf_of_Finland.
		The border between Karelia and Ingria, the land of the closely related Ingrian people, is traditionally held to follow the rivlet ''Sestra/Rajajoki'' (Russian: Ð¡ÐµÑÑÑÐ°/Ð Ð°ÑÐ¹Ð¾ÐºÐ¸), today in the Saint_Petersburg metropolitan area, but 1812–1940 the Russo-Finnish border.
	www.vmerch.com /Karelia (707 words)

	Karelia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Karelia was bitterly fought over by (A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula) Sweden and (A city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River; Russia's oldest city and an important trading center in the Middle Ages) Novgorod in the (additional info and facts about 13th century) 13th century.
		Karelia streches from the (A large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia) White Sea coast to the (An eastern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Finland and Estonia) Gulf of Finland.
		Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the (additional info and facts about Tver Oblast) Tver Oblast that are inhabited by (A member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia) Karelians.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ka/Karelia.htm (847 words)

	Aunus expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Aunus expedition was an attempt by Finnish volunteers to occupy parts of East Karelia in 1919, during the Russian Civil War.
		In February 1918 general Mannerheim, the commander of the anti-communist White Guards, wrote his famous "sword scabbard order of the day", in which he said that he would not put his sword into the scabbard until East Karelia was free of Russian control.
		Earlier attempts in 1918 to Petsamo and White Karelia (Viena expedition) had failed, partly due to a passive attitude of the Karelians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aunus_expedition (662 words)

	Many Karelias — Virtual Finland
		The loss of Karelia to the Soviet Union marked the end of over a thousand years of Finnish settlement in the area, as the inhabitants of the ceded areas — approximately 407,000 souls — were evacuated further west during the fighting in the Winter War.
		The predominantly agricultural and forestry-based economy of North Karelia went through dramatic restructuring in the 1960s and 1970s in particular, and the region suffered a considerable drain of population to the urban centres in the south of the country and across the Gulf of Bothnia in Sweden.
		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)

	Suchen im Web, Bilder, Videos, Blog, Lexikon und mehr.
		Karelia is the land of the Karelian and Finnish peoples and is a vast inhabited area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden.
		Karelia stretches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland.
		Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Karelians.
	www.coder-world.de /cgi-bin/metaseek/lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Karelia (1039 words)

	Dendrochronological data analysis
		Accommodation of the obtained arboreal chronologies in a southern part of Karelia, in a middle taiga sub-zone of softwood forests, gave possibility to generalize indexes of the local scales into unified time series of increment of tree-rings.
		In accordance to instrumental observations, the maximum annual air temperature in Karelia and Finland was marked in 1990 decades of present century.
		However, the universal exogenic effect producing the strong mating signal in the width of tree rings for taiga sub-zones of studied territory is not revealed for the territory of Karelia.
	nwpi.krc.karelia.ru /climas/Climatology/Dendrochronological%20data.htm (3489 words)

	Olonets - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Olonets (Russian: Олонец, Finnish: Aunus) is a centre of the Olonets Raion of Republic of Karelia, Russia.
		Olonets is the oldest documented settlement in Karelia, mentioned by Novgorodian sources as early as 1137.
		Modern Olonets is ranked among historical towns of Karelia, and it is the only city in the republic where Karelians are in majority (over 60% as of 2004).
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Olonets (246 words)

	Aunus expedition Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Aunus expedition was an attempt by Finnish volunteers to occupy parts of eastern Karelia during the Russian Civil War in 1919.
		Earlier attempts in 1918 to Petsamo and White Karelia had failed, partly due to a passive attitude of the Karelians.
		The expedition cosisted of about 3000 volunteer troops that crossed the border during the spring of 1919 with the goal of annexing Olonets Karelia to Finland.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/a/au/aunus_expedition.html (282 words)

	East Karelia (Russia), 1918-1930 # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge Nationalflaggen Nationalflagge Shop ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Karelia is the area between Finland and Russia.
		However, autonomous East Karelia [both current and soviet] is just a small part of Russian Karelia, known as White Sea Karelia, or in other words, the area between the White Sea and the Finnish border.
		The area to the south of White Sea Karelia, between lakes Onega and Lagoda, is known as Aunus Karelia, named after the town with the Finnish name Aunus (in Russian: Olonets).
	www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/ru-kr_h.html (439 words)

	All words on Karelia
		See Karelia (disambiguation) for other and more specific usages.'' Map showing the parts Karelia is traditionally divided into.
		Main article: History of Karelia Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and Novgorod in the 13th century.
		Main article: Geography of Karelia Karelia in relation to [[Kola Peninsula, Petersburg, Moscow, and foreign countries.]] Karelia streches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland.
	www.allwords.org /ka/karelia.html (986 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The Karelians of Karelia live chiefly west of the St. Petersburg-Murmansk railway line in the Karelian ASSR and their administrative centre is Petrozavodsk or Petroskoi.
		From the 9th to the 12th centuries the southern part of Karelia was under the control of the Kievan Rus principality.
		After the end of the Winter War in 1940, Karelia was granted the status of a full union republic, but in 1956 this reverted to autonomous republic.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/karelians.shtml (2193 words)

	Emigrants of karelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As it was determined by the historiographers, the largest part of the “Korelian refugees” crossed the border between Russia and Sweden on the Olonetzs isthmus and moved into the Russian lands through Olonets.
		Besides, he is quite right, saying that "the native Karelian population tried hard to conceal the newcomers, being interested in having extra persons liable to be taxed".
		Though we have no doubts that the Karelians have been living in a large region of Priladozhye as well as of Prionezhye for ages, written sources of the 16th and 17th centuries remain silent about that.
	home.onego.ru /~alkonost/emigrants.of_karelia.html (5551 words)

	Aunus expedition -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Aunus expedition was an attempt by (The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) Finnish volunteers to occupy parts of (additional info and facts about East Karelia) East Karelia in 1919, during the (additional info and facts about Russian Civil War) Russian Civil War.
		Aunus is the Finnish name for (additional info and facts about Olonets Karelia) Olonets Karelia.
		During the same time the plans for the Aunus expedition were prepared and the (additional info and facts about Jaeger-Major) Jaeger-Major Gunnar von Herzen was chosen as the commander of the troops.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Au/Aunus_expedition.htm (787 words)

	History of Karelia and Helulia village
		Mentions of Viking campaigns to Karelia at this period are also found in the Scandinavian sagas.
		In the beginning of the reign of Ivan IV the Terrible the prosperity of Karelia land went on for a while, but later, due to tax increases poverty and desolation came.
		According to the conditions of the peace treaty of 1617 the population of Karelia had the right to freely practice Orthodox faith and had to belong to the Novgorod Archdiocese.
	helyla.onego.ru /history_eng.html (6326 words)

	Russia Region In - Karelia
		Karelia borders Finland in the West, Leningrad and Vologda districts in the South, and the Murmansk and Archangelsk districts in the East.
		Collections of labyrinths and seids have been discovered in Karelia in the Kuzova Archipelago in the White Sea, along the sea route from Kem' to Solovetsky, the Solovetsky Archipelago itself, the the mountains of Kivakka and Nuoronen in the area of Paanajarvi and near Vottovaara mountain in Muezersky region.
		The territory of Karelia began being inhabited after the Ice Age ended in this area, about 8000 years B.C.E. By the beginning of the 9th century there was already permanent settlement in Karelia, and the Karelians themselves had become established as one of the tribes of Finland.
	members.aol.com /imershein/Page6g.html (4319 words)

	One day Valaam tour
		In the vicinity of Sortavala, the central town of Ladoga Karelia, are located spectacular thousand-year cultural landscapes and hills with ruins of medieval fortresses or remains of their stone walls.
		In the 17 century Ladoga Karelia was part of the Swedish Kingdom and received a strong influence of Scandinavian culture.
		Besides, cultural landscapes of Ladoga Karelia are considered as memorable places of an ancient and recent history of the Karelians and the Finns.
	www.sortavala.ru /w_valaam/val_tour_3.html (953 words)

	publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ancient Olonets and the Early Generations of the Citizens in Karelia: from the 17th to the 18th Century
		Karelia as the territorythat was belonging to Novgorod, Russia and Sweden
		Karelia between the East and West: On the turn point from the Late Medieval to the Early New Times // Historia Fenno—Ugrica II.
	home.onego.ru /~alkonost/publications.html (1174 words)

	BFN of SPNS: projects: Rural development in Olonets, Southern Karelia
		International Symposium "Management and conservation of waterfowl populations in Norhtern Eurasia" was held in Olonets in 23-28 of April 2003 and focused on the development of cooperation of scientists, conservationists and hunetrs from Russia and West European countries.
		It is jointly organised by the Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Science and Goose, Swan and Duck Group of Northern Eurasia - NGO focused on waterfowl research and conservation activities in Russia and NIS.
		Articles devoted to natural heritage of Olonets land written by scientists, conservationists, schoolteachers and children are presented in the magazine.
	bfn.org.ru /Olonetzeng1.htm (1529 words)

	Ladoga. The list of Protected Areas in the Republic of Karelia
		Farmland of the Olonets plain is the largest in Europe spring stopping place for white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons) and bean geese (F. fabalis).
		In the period of mass arrival over 110,000 birds a day may sometimes be recorded in the fields around Olonets.
		The first geese appear near Olonets from late March to mid April depending on the weather in spring.
	ladoga.krc.karelia.ru /protected/karelia/Olonets (303 words)

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