Finno-Ugric peoples

Finno-Ugric peoples

thumb|Kievan Rus 1030–1113. The lands of the Chuds are shown in the north. Chud or Chude (, , ) is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia. It has also been used to refer to other Finno-Ugric peoples.

Finno-Ugric peoples resident to the Baltic seashores

thumb|200px|right|Volga Finns, [[Baltic Finns, Slavs and Khazars in the 9th century; Permians marked with red]] The Permians are the peoples who speak the Permic languages, a branch of the Uralic language family, which includes Komis, Udmurts, and Besermyans.

representative forum of Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic people

thumb|right|300px|Map of the Roman Empire and surrounding peoples in AD 125. The map shows two possible locations of the Fenni, based on possible readings of [[Tacitus (Livonia) and Ptolemy (upper Vistula river). Another location given by Ptolemy, in northern Scandinavia, is not shown as the map does not cover that region]] The Fenni were an ancient people of northeastern Europe, first described by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in AD 98.

historical-linguistic group of people who speak Finnic languages