The Tornedalians are descendants of Finns who, at some point, settled to the areas of today's Northern Sweden near the Torne Valley district and west from there. Tornedalians are a recognized national minority in Sweden.[2]
^Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity (in Russian)
^Council of Europe: Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Fourth Report submitted by Sweden pursuant to Article 25, paragraph 2 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 1 June 2014, ACFC/SR/IV(2016)004 , available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/58346ed64.html [accessed 31 December 2023], p. 3
Torne Valley district and west from there. Tornedalians are a recognized national minority in Sweden. Tornedalians descend from Finnish peasants who arrived...
subgroups of Finns. These include the Kvens and Forest Finns in Norway, the Tornedalians in Sweden, and the Ingrian Finns in Russia. Finnish, the language spoken...
was created. These Finnish-speakers are chiefly categorized as either Tornedalians originating at the Finnish–Swedish border in the far north, or Forest...
Izhorians, Votes, and Livonians. In some cases the Kvens, Ingrians, Tornedalians and speakers of Meänkieli are considered separate from the Finns. The...
Museum is located in Vadsø. Birkarls Forest Finns Kvenland Sámi people Tornedalians [1] "Endelig et felles flagg for kvenene" (in Bokmål) "Finnish, Kven"...
found in Norrbotten County, including Sami culture, Finnish culture (via Tornedalians) and the Swedish settler-culture. Many of the old local Swedish and Finnish...
are a distinct group from the other Finnish groups in Scandinavia: the Tornedalians along the Swedish-Finnish border, the Kvens in the Northern Norwegian...
haplogroup H and 19.4% carry U5. Siberian Finns Kola Norwegians Karelians Tornedalians Skogfinner Sweden Finns Finland-Swedes Kvens Murmansk Finns Paluumuutto...
Romanians) and/or unspecified 12% (2002 census). Sweden Swedes 88% Finns (Tornedalians) foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns (Sweden-Finns), Yugoslavs...
the exceptions of the indigenous Sámi people and the Finnish-speaking Tornedalians in the northernmost parts of the country. During the 19th century, Sweden...
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States Findians Europe Norway Forest Finns, Kvens Russia Ingrians Äyrämöiset, Savakot Sweden Forest Finns, Tornedalians Switzerland Oceania Australia...
States Findians Europe Norway Forest Finns, Kvens Russia Ingrians Äyrämöiset, Savakot Sweden Forest Finns, Tornedalians Switzerland Oceania Australia...
13th century until 1899 during its period of independence. Tornedalians Flag Tornedalians Europe, Northern Finnic 2007 Flag of the Iraqi Turkmen Iraqi...
compared with other European countries with the exception of the Sami and Tornedalian minorities. During the High Middle Ages, German immigrants arrived as...
Finnish colonial people would adapt newer local identities, such as the Tornedalians and the Forest Finns. Many of these migrations were actively promoted...
that the officially recognised Swedish minority peoples (e.g. Sámi, Tornedalians and Jews) in many cases have dual cultural identities and that they probably...
States Findians Europe Norway Forest Finns, Kvens Russia Ingrians Äyrämöiset, Savakot Sweden Forest Finns, Tornedalians Switzerland Oceania Australia...
such as the Volga Tatars, Yakuts and Evens, as well. List of Karelians Tornedalians Ingrians Forest Finns Sweden Finns Finland-Swedes Kvens Kalevala Karelian...
case. Meänkieli (also known as Tornionlaaksonsuomi [lit. Tornedalian Finnish] and Tornedalian) is spoken by a population in northern Sweden. It is closely...
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