9 August commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It is celebrated around the world and marks the date of the inaugural session …
Names Their autonym is n’eney n’enet’s’, which in the Nenets language means “real person”, in some regions also ‘hasawa’ (“man”). The Nenets ethnonym in Russian is ‘yurak samoyed’ in …
Names The Votes have referred to themselves as vad’d’alaizõd, vai rahvaz, maaväči, and they are also associated with the ethnonyms chud and vod’ mentioned in Russian chronicles and documents …
According to recent studies, the peoples speaking Finno-Ugric languages have inhabited Europe for about ten millennia. It seems that before the “Great Migration”, mainly Finno-Ugric …