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Flag of Vepsia |poptime=8,500 |popplace=Russia |rels=Russian_Orthodoxy |langs=Russian, Vepsian |related=other Finnic peoples }} '''Veps''' or '''Vepsians''' are a Finnic people that speak the Veps_language, which belongs to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric_languages. The self-designations of these people in various dialects are '''vepslaine''', '''bepslaane''', and (in northern dialects, southwest of Lake_Onega) '''ludi''' and '''ludilaine'''. In early Russian chronicles they are called "Весь" (Ves). Presently, they live in the Republic_of_Karelia in the area between Lake_Ladoga, Lake_Onega (Äänisjärv), and White Lake (Valgjärv, Белое Озеро), in Leningrad_Oblast by the Oyat_River, and in the eastern part of the Leningrad Oblast and a part of the Vologda_Oblast. According to the 2002 Census, there were 8240 Veps in Russia. Of the 281 Veps in Ukraine, 11 speak Vepsian. (Ukr. Census 2001) Image:Muromian-map.png Tribes. An approximative map of the non-Varangian cultures in Europe, in the 9th_century.]] ==External links== * Vepsian organization * Effort to vitalise the Vepsian language * The Peoples of the Red Book: THE VEPS Category:Vepsia Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Europe Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Russia Category:Finnic_peoples Category:Indigenous_peoples_of_Europe {{Finnic-stub}} {{Russia-stub}} Ca:Vepse_(poble) De:Wepsen Et:Vepslased Eo:Vepsoj Ko:벱스인 Nn:Vepsarar Pl:Wepsowie Ru:Вепсы Fi:Vepsäläiset Sv:Vepser Uk:Вепси
Flag of Vepsia |poptime=8,500 |popplace=Russia |rels=Russian_Orthodoxy |langs=Russian, Vepsian |related=other Finnic peoples }} '''Veps''' or '''Vepsians''' are a Finnic people that speak the Veps_language, which belongs to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric_languages. The self-designations of these people in various dialects are '''vepslaine''', '''bepslaane''', and (in northern dialects, southwest of Lake_Onega) '''ludi''' and '''ludilaine'''. In early Russian chronicles they are called "Весь" (Ves). Presently, they live in the Republic_of_Karelia in the area between Lake_Ladoga, Lake_Onega (Äänisjärv), and White Lake (Valgjärv, Белое Озеро), in Leningrad_Oblast by the Oyat_River, and in the eastern part of the Leningrad Oblast and a part of the Vologda_Oblast. According to the 2002 Census, there were 8240 Veps in Russia. Of the 281 Veps in Ukraine, 11 speak Vepsian. (Ukr. Census 2001) Image:Muromian-map.png Tribes. An approximative map of the non-Varangian cultures in Europe, in the 9th_century.]] ==External links== * Vepsian organization * Effort to vitalise the Vepsian language * The Peoples of the Red Book: THE VEPS Category:Vepsia Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Europe Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Russia Category:Finnic_peoples Category:Indigenous_peoples_of_Europe {{Finnic-stub}} {{Russia-stub}} Ca:Vepse_(poble) De:Wepsen Et:Vepslased Eo:Vepsoj Ko:벱스인 Nn:Vepsarar Pl:Wepsowie Ru:Вепсы Fi:Vepsäläiset Sv:Vepser Uk:Вепси