FINNS PEOPLE

Finns people has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN PEOPLE category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

The international name for Finns people is a german term "fen" to indicate the most ancient European peoples living since VIII century AD in the northern plain of Scandinavia that seasonally is covered in ice or water. Historically considered a unique ethnicity coming from the Volga river area as part of the Western Uralic peoples, it is possible identify the subgroups of Kvens, Forest Finns and Ingrians, even if their phenotype is characteristic of the older population or northern European hunter-gatherers coming from the Arctic and similar to Sami and Estonians peoples, having blond or light brwon hair and clear eyes.

Finns all speak Finnish language that is part of the Ugro-Finn family common to Magyars and near to the old Uralic languages spoken by the arctic peoples such as Sami. Agriculture supplemented by fishing and hunting has been the traditional livelihood among Finns until they were annexed to Sweden kingdom in XII century AD, when timber resources became the first economic activities aside breeding of cattles and pigs. The political independence of Finns came in 1919 AD after a brief war against Russian Empire that had connquered that region a century before during the Napoleonic epoch: the new state of Finland and Estonia around the ancient finnish cities of Vyborg and Narva sited on the Finland Gulf.

The finnish region is tipycally made of thousands of iced lakes and rivers or long fjords and hundreds of isles, covered by pines forests and tundra phyical ambient signed by a continental humid climate that oblige Finns to live on cities along the Botnia and Finland Gulfs or to migrate abroad in sourrounding baltic states like Sweden and Russia, while great communities are present in United States and Canada.

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