Place Names In Languages Of Indigenous Peoples In The Republic Of Karelia, Russia

Place Names In Languages Of Indigenous Peoples In The Republic Of Karelia, Russia   Since olden times Karelians and Vepsians settled on banks of rivers and lakes developing uninhabited places and giving them their names. Villages were named after rivers or other features of the district (a mountain, bay, cape or name of its first inhabitant). These toponyms, place names of settlements, are original monuments of history, language and culture of people that created them, reflect physiographic...

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