Kvens (Kven: kvääni; Finnish: kveeni; Norwegian: kvener; Swedish: kväner; Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic group indigenous to the northern...
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of Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway by the Kven people. For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority...
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Look up kven in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kven may refer to: Kven people, a Finnic ethnic group of Norway Kven language, the Finnic language spoken...
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The Kven flag (Kven: kvääniflaku) has been officially used as a symbol to represent the Kven people of Norway, Sweden, and Finland since 2009. It was...
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origin, including but not limited to Black people, Sámi people, Kven people, Romani people, Muslim people, and Asians. Jews in Norway occasionally experience...
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Norwegianization of the Sámi (category Kven culture)
carried out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sámi people and later the Kven people of northern Norway, in which the goal was to assimilate...
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Tornedalians (redirect from Tornedalean people)
Tornedalians generally divide themselves into three distinct groups: Tornedalians, Kvens, and Lantalaiset. Tornedalians are descended from Tavastians and Karelians...
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Leonhard Seppala (category Kven people)
(/ˈlɛnərd ˈsɛpələ/; September 14, 1877 – January 28, 1967) was a Norwegian-Kven-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher who with his dogs played a...
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Languages of Norway (section Kven)
Spoken by the Kven people, the Kven language is a Finnic language, closely related to Finnish, and spoken by between 5,000 to 8,000 people in northeastern...
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Kvenland (redirect from Kvens (historical))
century, also mention Kvens. Today, the term Kven is used in Norway in reference to the descendants of Finnish-speaking people who have inhabited or migrated...
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rights of the Kven people, improving the media coverage of Kven issues, and for the Norwegian government to establish a State Secretary for Kven issues. In...
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Burfjord (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
Burfjord (Norwegian), Burovuonna (Northern Sami), or Puruvuono (Kven) is a village in Kvænangen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is the...
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worn by either members of the Norwegian people or members of the Sami people of Norway or members of the Kven people of Norway. Bunad is a Norwegian umbrella...
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Finnmark (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
Finnmark (Norwegian: [ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk] ; Northern Sami: Finnmárku [ˈfinːˌmaːrːhkuː]; Kven: Finmarkku; Finnish: Finnmark; Russian: Финнмарк) is a county in northern...
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Norway (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
of Sámi or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian. The national minorities of Norway are Kvens, Jews, Forest Finns, and Romani people. In 2017,...
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Skibotn (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
Skibotn (Norwegian), Ivgubahta (Northern Sami), or Yykeänperä (Kven) is a village in Storfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located on the...
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Meänkieli speakers have gradually been considering themselves part of the Kven people, which supposedly arrived to the area much earlier than the Swedish settlers...
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John Savio (category Kven people)
His father was Per Savio, a polar explorer who was one of the first two people to spend a night on the Antarctic continent, and his mother was Ellen Strimp...
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Sami people and for the whole of Norway.) 21 February – King Harald V's birthday 16 March – The Kven National Day. (An official flag day for the Kven people...
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term associated with Kvenland, an area in Scandinavia Kven Sea Kven people Cwen language or Kven language an Old English word for "queen" or "woman" Society...
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previous decade, as 36,000 Finns left their home country for North America. Kven people in Sweden. The picture was published in 1926. Finnish branch of the Salvation...
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Børselv (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
village. The area is full of Kven language-speakers and the Kvæntunet cultural and language centre for the Kven people is located in Børselv. "Børselv"...
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Adolf Lindstrøm (category Kven people)
Norwegian chef and polar explorer. Lindstrøm was born in Hammerfest. He was of Kven origin. He took part in Otto Sverdrup's Fram expedition from 1898 to 1902...
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surrounding 1900, many in Norway feared the Finnish immigration and Kven people in Northern Norway, coining the term "the Finnish danger". For a period...
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toponymical approach. Yet another theory postulates that the words finn and kven are cognates. Chud Fenni Fennoscandia Finnic mythologies Finno-Ugric languages...
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some cases the Kvens, Ingrians, Tornedalians and speakers of Meänkieli are considered separate from the Finns. The bulk of the Finnic peoples (more than 98%)...
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Orosius, in the plural form Cwenas. Today, however, Kven refers to Finnish (Kven) speaking people who have migrated to northern Norway in relatively recent...
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Troms og Finnmark (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk]; Northern Sami: Romsa ja Finnmárku [ˈromːsa ja ˈfinːmaːrku]; Kven: Tromssa ja Finmarkku; Finnish: Tromssa ja Finnmark) was a county in northern...
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Finnish Australians Finnish Canadians Forest Finns (Norway & Sweden) Kven people (Norway) Ingrian Finns (Russia) Sweden Finns Tornedalians (Sweden) Finns...
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