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    River to the east of Lake Ladoga. Olonets is located at the confluence of the Olonka and Megrega rivers, on the Olonets Plain, 140 km southwest of Petrozavodsk...
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    control by around 1478. Olonets Karelia became a governate of the Russian Empire in 1801, being known as the Olonets Governorate. Olonets Karelia fell under...
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  • Olonets is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia Olonets may also refer to: Olonets Governorate, a governorate of the Russian Empire Olonets Viceroyalty...
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    Svir River. The name "Olonets Karelians" is derived from the territory inhabited, Olonets Krai, named after the town of Olonets, named after the Olonka...
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    The Olonets Government, later called the Provisional Government of Olonets (Finnish: Aunuksen väliaikainen hallitus, Livvi: Anuksenlinnun aijalline halličus...
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    North Karelian and Olonets Karelian have 21 diphthongs: In addition to the diphthongs North Karelian has a variety of triphthongs: Olonets Karelian has only...
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    employment. Olonets Governorate was divided into seven uyezds, of which the chief towns were Petrozavodsk, Kargopol, Lodeynoye Pole, Olonets, Povenets,...
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    commune. The borders which the Executive Committee of Olonets wished for were those of the Olonets Governorate of that of under the Russian Empire. As they...
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  • Olonets Isthmus is between Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga in Russia. 61°36′N 33°24′E / 61.6°N 33.4°E / 61.6; 33.4 v t e v t e...
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  • Karelia in 1919, during the Russian Civil War. Aunus is the Finnish name for Olonets Karelia. This expedition was one of many Finnic "kinship wars" (heimosodat)...
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  • Northern dialects   1. Arkhangelsk dialect   2. Olonets dialect   3. Novgorod dialect   4. Viatka dialect   5. Vladimir dialect Central dialects   6....
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    (Olonets) and sixty-four rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Olonetsky Municipal District. The town of Olonets and...
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    existed from 1920 to 1923, as a merger of the Republic of Uhtua and the Olonets Government of Southern Karelia. On 20 December 1920, the Karelian United...
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    the oldest documented settlement was established, the modern-day city of Olonets (Aunus). Karelians converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1227. The Karelians'...
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    Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (Karelian: kalittoja, singular kalitta; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku; Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka;...
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  • Philippines, a small village in the province of Laguna Olonets, Russia, known in the Olonets Karelian language as Anus or Anuksenlinnu Anu (disambiguation)...
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  • colonel of the Imperial Russian Army. A commanding officer of the (14th) Olonets Infantry Regiment, he took part in the Polish-Russian War of 1830 and was...
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  • no sense to continue with Karelian. Olonets Karelian alphabet was approved in 1989 and it was used to write Olonets Karelian (also known as Livvi Karelian)...
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    of the so-called three-isthmus border—defined by the White Isthmus, the Olonets Isthmus, and the Karelian Isthmus—is hundreds of years old, dating back...
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    fortress, renamed Shlisselburg. In 1702 Peter the Great established the Olonets Shipyard at Lodeynoye Pole, where Russian frigate Shtandart was built....
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    from the Komi dog. Basic stock dogs originated from the Ladoga Karelia, Olonets Karelia, and East Karelia where they were used for hunting. The breeding...
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    Witold Pilecki (category People from Olonets)
    Polish historians. Witold Pilecki was born on 13 May 1901 in the town of Olonets, Karelia, in the Russian Empire. He was a descendant of a Polish-speaking...
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    used in Laz, where it represents [t͡sʼ]. Until 2007 it was also used by Olonets Karelian language. It is also used in the Latin alphabet for the Laz language...
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  • discoverer Yrjö Väisälä DMP · 1479 1480 Aunus 1938 DK Russian town of Olonets (Finnish: Aunus) in Karelia. It is also named after the grandson of discoverer...
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    The 14th Olonets Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Russian Empire's Imperial Russian Army. It took part in wars against the Ottoman Empire...
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    of Viena Karjala (English: White Karelia) and Aunus Karjala (English: Olonets Karelia). 19th-century ethnic-nationalist Fennomans saw East Karelia as...
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  • gave the name to the town of Olonets by the river and eventually to the surrounding territory (Olonets Governorate, Olonets Krai, now Olonetsky District)...
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    incorporated as Olonets Province but still remained in Novgorod Governorate. The province consisted of three uyezds with the centers in Olonets, Vytegra, and...
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    suffered a more severe punishment than Lermontov did: was deported to the Olonets Governorate for two years to serve in a lowly clerk's position. In the...
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    Proper is situated in all of White Karelia and Central Karelia (parts of Olonets Karelia). Karelian Proper is divided into two main dialects, which are...
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