Broad linguistic and cultural grouping of Finno-Ugric-speaking peoples (ancestral to the Finns, Estonians, Karelians, and related Volga-Finnic groups) around the Baltic Sea and northwestern Russia, organized in scattered tribal societies rather than states in this period.
Not an ending: the Finnish tribes continue as the population of medieval Finland. Finland Proper was brought under the Swedish realm by the First Swedish Crusade (traditionally dated c. 1150); Tavastia/Häme followed by the mid-13th-century Second Crusade, and Karelia was contested with Novgorod until the border was fixed by the 1323 Treaty of Nöteborg. The record ends at 1150 where kingdom_of_sweden_early takes over Finland Proper and Tavastia. (The group also differentiates into the specifically-named medieval Finnic peoples — Suomi/Finns proper, Karelians, ancient Estonians — several separately named in the historical-basemaps world_1000 snapshot.)
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Finnic peoples (pre-state) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 BC · 200 · 400.
Modern survey history of Finland that opens with the deep prehistoric and early Finnic-speaking background before the medieval and modern state.
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