Countries: Finland

Finland is country in Northern Europe which borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia.

The name of Finland’s oldest city, Turku, means ‘place of trade.’ The oldest known road, H?meen h?rk?tie, connected to region and the Old Castle of Lieto to Tavastia c. 900 BC.

In the East Slavic sources, Estonians and other closely related Finnic tribes were known as?Chuds, 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.

In 862, Chuds?participated?in the founding of the?Rurik dynasty?in?Novgorod, gradually losing their influence to the?Novgorod Slavs?who migrated to the area, expanding westward.?

Kievan Rus', also known as?Kyivan Rus',?was the first?East Slavic?state?in?Eastern Europe, encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including?East Slavic,?Norse, and?Finnic, it was ruled by the?Rurik dynasty, founded by the?Varangian?prince?Rurik.

Kievan Rus?attempted to subjugate Estonia in the 11th century, with?Yaroslav the Wise capturing Tartu around 1030. This foothold lasted until 1061 when an Estonian tribe, the Sosols, destroyed it.

Yaroslav I Vladimirovich (c.?978-1054), better known as?Yaroslav the Wise was Grand Prince of Kiev?from 1019 until his death in 1054. He was a son of Vladimir the Great and Rogneda of Polotsk.

Traditionally, Rurik has been considered the founder of the?Rurik dynasty, which was the ruling dynasty of?Kievan Rus'?and its principalities, and ultimately the?Tsardom of Russia, until the death of?Feodor I?in 1598.

During the 12th and 13th centuries several crusades from the Catholic realms of the Baltic Sea area were made against the Finnish tribes.?Danes?waged at least three crusades to Finland, in 1187 or slightly earlier, in 1191 and in 1202, and?Swedes, possibly the so-called?second Crusade to Finland, in 1249 against Tavastians and the?third Crusade to Finland?in 1293 against the Karelians.

Following the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah, Genesis 10 presents a family tree in the form of a branched or segmented genealogy, tracing the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their descendants. Many of these names become future nations, tribes, lands and cities, known to us from elsewhere in the Bible and from extra-biblical sources: Accordingly, this chapter is referred to as the “Table of Nations.”

In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah.

From these eight people …. Noah, his sons and their wives …? the whole earth was populated.

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