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| | Odin Archive - The Barents region and the Pomors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The traders, or Pomors, as they were known (the word is a corruption of the Russian pomorje, meaning "coastland"), even developed their own pidgin, comprising Russian and Norwegian, that has been a source of some fascination to Scandinavian linguists. |
 | | Russia was the first country to recognize the newly independent Norway in 1905, quite possibly because of benevolent feelings toward the new nation engendered by the old Pomor connection. |
 | | That connection, although severed for several generations by the Soviet authorities, is nevertheless thought by many historians and intelligence analysts to have contributed to the remarkably low degree of tension along the border throughout the Cold War, despite constant, sometimes frantic, espionage on both sides. |
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