The Baltic Finnic peoples, often simply referred to as the Finnic peoples, are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Finnic languages. They include the Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Veps, Izhorians, Votes, and Livonians. In some cases the Kvens, Ingrians, Tornedalians and speakers of Meänkieli are considered separate from the Finns.
Northern Europe in 814.
Finns or Finnish people are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.
19th century Fennomans consciously sought to define the Finnish people through depiction of the common people's everyday lives in art, such as this painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
Man's costume during the Iron Age according to the archeological finds from Tuukkala. Interpretation from 1889.
Väinämöisen soitto (Väinämöinen's Play) by R. W. Ekman. The painting is a depiction of Väinämöinen playing the kantele.
Peasants toiling at a slash-and-burn site in Lapinlahti, Eastern Finland.