Ingria

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historical region

Ingria is a historical region in northwestern Russia, situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, traditionally inhabited by Finnic peoples such as the Ingrians and Votes.

Aliases (1)

Ingermanland ×4

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical region →
borderedBy	Gulf of Finland → Karelian Isthmus → Lake Ladoga →
cededBy	Sweden →
cededInTreaty	Treaty of Nystad →
cededInYear	1721 →
cededTo	Russia →
containsCity	Kronstadt area → Saint Petersburg region →
country	Russia →
culturalRegionOf	Finnic world →
currentAdministrativeRegionOverlap	Leningrad Oblast → city of Saint Petersburg →
earlierCessionInTreaty	Treaty of Stolbovo →
earlierCessionInYear	1617 →
ethnicGroup	Ingrian Finns → Izhorians → Votes →
ethnolinguisticRegionOf	Finnic peoples →
hasCoastlineOn	Gulf of Finland →
hasLakeshoreOn	Lake Ladoga →
hasMinority	Estonians → Russians →
historicalEvent	Russification policies → population deportations during Soviet era →
historicalLanguage	Finnish → Ingrian → Russian → Votic →
historicalNameInRussian	Ingermanland →
historicalNameInSwedish	Ingermanland →
historicalRuler	Novgorod Republic → Russia → Sweden →
locatedBetween	Gulf of Finland → Lake Ladoga →
locatedIn	northwestern Russia →
namedAfter	Ingrians →
near	Saint Petersburg →
partOf	Eastern Europe → Fennoscandia →
strategicImportance	access to Baltic Sea →
traditionalInhabitants	Ingrians → Votes →
traditionalReligion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Lutheranism →
wasContestedBetween	Russia → Sweden →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ingrian Finns → Ingrian Finns ("Ingermanland") →	traditionalRegion
Leningrad Oblast ("Ingermanland") →	hasHistoricalRegion
Ingria ("Ingermanland") →	historicalNameInRussian
Ingria ("Ingermanland") →	historicalNameInSwedish
Izhora River →	locatedInHistoricalRegion
Votic language →	spokenIn
Finnic languages →	spokenInRegion
Swedish Empire →	territoryIncludes