Map 1 shows the approximate limits of ancient
Finnish settlements between the Ural Mountains and Fenno-Scandia (Norway,
Sweden, Finland). Finnic people that occupy the areas between these Republics,
do not have their name-sake Republic. For example, there is no Vepsä, or
Korelian autonomous area. Note the spaces between these Republics, an obvious
attempt to keep them separated.
The Expansion of Slavs (2) (Slaavien leveneminen) into
Finno-Ugric lands. The Merjas are displaced and absorbed by neighbouring
Finno-Ugric groups, especially the Mari, who themselves travel Eastward from
their ancient homeland in the area where the Oka flows into the Volga. (Mareja
= Maris, Vepsäläisiä = Vepsä+people - related to the Eastern Karelians, -järvi
= -lake eg. Valgetj. = Valgetjärvi)
The largest Map (3) is seemlessly split into four files,
and covers Karelia/Eastern Karelia, the mythical land of
Kalevala.
Map 4 is based on Russian maps and are according to Zyrian I. Möššeg, not
consistent with the native folklore, due to Russian mistakes and Russification. Jurla should be Jurva, Susva = Suzva, Velva = Völva etc.
Corrections would be impossible as information is scarce. Even in this form, however, the place names show a definite Perm-Komi influence. The place-names with -ma, -nga, and -ga endings are of old Finno-Ugric origin often predating the present Komi. Many are of Lapp or other
ancient arctic Finno-Ugric origin. (Suomen Suvun Tiet, E. Kuussaari,
1935).
It may also be underscored here that the scholars of
prehistory and history regard ancient place-names of a country as proof
of the identity of the language in which it occurs and that of their
speakers who gave them to the places which they occupied and inhabited
for a considerable length of time. In these maps we see the proof of
Finno-Ugric inhabitation of the north since at least the last ice age,
preceding the slavic by a considerable length of time. Unconquered land
is not Russian by default as indicated on many Soviet era maps, such as
those showing Russia extending all the way to the Baltic in the first
millennium. Moscow and Novgorod were focusing on the areas north and
east of Lake Ladoga and were in competition with each other for control
of land occupied by Uralic people.
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