More significant Finno-Ugric Polities in Medieval Europe

Russian,
that`s a good point, the Pomors. They were as few, and lived as much off hunting, reindeer herding and fishing as their Ugro-Finnic neighbours.
This example, just like that of the agricultural Finns and Estonian groups, is a good reminder that linguistic groups ought not be equated with socio-cultural complexes. A mistake I made indeed.
 
I was just as surprised to see a Sami/Finnish area in southern Sweden, and Germanic areas in southern France and northern and central Italy (yes, I know about the Goths and Lombards, but I thought they were all assimilated by AD 1000?)

That southern Swedish area is meant to be Sami?
Shame, it really intruiged me and thought it might be something else/
 
That southern Swedish area is meant to be Sami?
Shame, it really intruiged me and thought it might be something else/

Or, giving similar absurd stuff you can find elsewhere on all the map, it's just the mapmaker not having a single clue about what he was doing.
 
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