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ARTICLES RELATED TO Kven - History | | | |  Kven - History: Encyclopedia II - Kven - HistoryThe Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the historic Kvenland territories have located along and around big bodies of waters, such as the Gulf of Bothnia, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea and the White Sea, and by the large fjords such as the Varanger Fjord, and by large lakes such as the Lake Inari, and by large rivers such as the Kvenland river (a.k.a. River Kalix in Swedish or Kainuujoki in Finnish), the Torne ...
See also:Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - History |
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| | | | Kven - History: Encyclopedia II - Kven - The people The term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) - Kainulainen in Finnish) - refers to the northern Scandinavian people, who are of a pre 20th century Finnish origin. In modern terminology, however, only those of Finnish background living in Northern Norway are refered to as Kvens.
The towns and communities around the Varanger Fjord in notheastern Norway still today possess the most visible and strong Kven (Cwen, Kveeni) culture, traditio ...
See also:Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - The people |
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| | | | Kven - History: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Historical usage of the term 98 A.D., the Roman historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus wrote about the Fenni, people of the north. This is the first reference to the Finns in recorded history. (In reality he is thought to have meant the Lapps).
To add to the confusion, the Viking Age Norwegians often called the Samis either Skridfinns or Finns, to separate them from the Kvens, who in reality actually were - of course - also Finns, more so than the Samis, though they too are members of the Finnic (a.k.a. Finn ...
See also:Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Historical usage of the term |
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| | | | Kven - History: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today As of 2005 total of four Finno-Ugric languages have been granted a legal language status by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland in the areas that once was referred to as Kvenland.
Those languages are Sami, Kainu (official name accepted legally in 2005, a.k.a. Kainun kieli - i.e. the language on Kainu - and Kven), Meänkieli (a.k.a. Tornedalen) and Finnish.
The four Finno-Ugric (a.k.a. Fenno-Ugric, Finnic or Uralic) languages are tought in the schools in the area of the historic Kv ...
See also:Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today |
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| | | | Kven - History: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Wars in Kvenland According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) - a.k.a. Ottar from Hålogaland -, near Troms (Tromsa), as well as the Icelandic sagas - such as e.g. the Egil's saga by Snorri Sturluson - the Finnish Kvens (a.k.a. Kven people or Kvens, Cwens or Quens) were in charge of the large northernmost territories of the Scandinavian Peninsula during the 9th century AD, i.e. during the period referred to in agas in question.
In 1230 AD, in the introduction to the Orkneyinga Saga, Fundinn Noregr discusses the kings of Finland and K ...
See also:Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Wars in Kvenland |
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| | | | Kven - History: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway In today's Norway the term Kven (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northern Norway, who have settled there before the 20th century.
After the Middle Ages and the migration of the so called Tornedalians the next larger migration wave up north - this time again reaching the coastal areas of today's Norway - happened in the early 18th century. The following Kven migration to Northern Norway - and to the areas that were a part of the Republic of Finland up till 1944 - took place in the beginning of the 19th ...
See also:Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway |
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