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Chud

Chud or Chude (Old East Slavic: чудь, romanized: čudǐ, Finnish: tšuudi, Northern Sami: čuhti) is 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. It has also been used to refer to other Finno-Ugric peoples.

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Use of term in historical times

VotesChukhnaChukhonetsFinnsEstonians
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Attestation in Slavonic sources

EstoniansRus' chroniclesPrimary ChronicleBaltic SeaOld Prussians
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Identity

Slavic peopleRussianSetosToponymyLuga
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Chuds in folklore

Russian folk legendsBylinasBylichkasPathfinder
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Etymology

Attestation in Slavonic sources

Identity

Chuds in folklore

Use of term in historical times

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Chud

Nodes73
Edges72
Triples114
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
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Chud

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related to Attestation in Slavonic sources · 44
Chud → According, Arguably, Baltic Finnic, Baltic Sea, Chud Lake, Chuds, Chudskoye, East Slavic, Estonia, Estonian, Estonians, Finnic, Harionenses, However, Ilmen Slavs, In, It, Kievan, Kievan Rus, Komis
related to Identity · 27
Chud → After, Baltic-Finnic, Chuds, Fasmer, Finland, Finnic, Finnic-speaking, Finnish, Finnish Finno-Ugrist Janne Saarikivi, Finno-Ugric, Gulf, However, In, Karelia, Lake Ladoga, Luga, Many, Pauli Rahkonen, Russia, Russian
related to Use of term in historical times · 18
Chud → Chuds, Estonians, Finland, Finnic, Finns, Following, However, In, Later, Northern Chuds, Russian, Russians, Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union, The, Veps, Votes, Winter War
related to Etymology · 9
Chud → Another, Finnish, Finno-Ugric, Lake Ladoga, Sami, Slavic, There, This, Yet
related to External links · 9
Chud → Archived, Chronicle, Chude, David, Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved, Savignac, The Pskov, Vol
related to Chuds in folklore · 6
Chud → Chuds, In Russian, One, Russian, Slavs, When
see also · 1
Chud → Gauja EstoniansChudovo

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chuds russian word slavic peoples estonia citation needed old finnic term finnish sami chronicles chronicle east area used primary also

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesArguably0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesChuds0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesBaltic Finnic0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesEstonians0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesRus0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesOld East Slavic0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesAccording0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesPrimary Chronicle0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesVarangian Sea0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesBaltic Sea0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesLyakhs0.60section
Chudrelated to Attestation in Slavonic sourcesPoles0.60section

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