Chud

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Chud refers to a Finnic-speaking indigenous people historically inhabiting parts of northwestern Russia and the eastern Baltic region, often mentioned in early East Slavic chronicles.

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Label Occurrences
Chud canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
historical people
associatedWith Baltic Finnic peoples
surface form: Finnic peoples

Russian folklore
medieval Russian historiography
associatedWithLanguageFamily Uralic languages
conflictWith early Rus principalities
culturalSphere Finno-Ugric languages
surface form: Finno-Ugric

Northern European
economicActivity agriculture
hunting and fishing
trade
ethnicClassification Finnic-speaking people
ethnographicStatus partly legendary in later folklore
ethnonymType exonym
geographicContext Baltic Sea region
surface form: Baltic region

Eastern Europe
historicalRegion Baltic Sea drainage basin
surface form: Baltic Sea basin

Lake Peipus region
Novgorod Republic
surface form: Novgorod lands
indigenousTo eastern Baltic region
northwestern Russia
linguisticAttribute Finnic languages
non-Slavic
mentionedIn Rus' chronicles
surface form: Primary Chronicle (Tale of Bygone Years)

early East Slavic chronicles
neighborOf Baltic tribes
early East Slavs
relatedTo Estonians
Livonian people
surface form: Livonians

Vepsians
surface form: Veps

Votes
other Baltic Finnic groups
religion later Christianity
paganism
roleInSources neighbors of early East Slavs
participants in frontier conflicts
trading partners
sourceLanguage Old East Slavic
sourceType chronicle references
status historically attested
not a modern standardized ethnicity
termUsage sometimes used generically for various Finnic tribes
timePeriod High Middle Ages
early Middle Ages
usedBy East Slavs

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Rurik invitedBy Chud