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The Merya people (; also Merä) were an ancient Finno-Ugric
Finno-Ugric peoples

The Finno-Ugric peoples is a historic linguistic group of peoples in Europe who speak Finno-Ugric languages, such as the Finnic peoples and the Ugric peoples ....
  people who lived in the regions of modern Russian cities of Rostov
Rostov

Rostov is one of the oldest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so called Golden ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nero in Yaroslavl Oblast....
, Kostroma
Kostroma

Kostroma is an historic types of inhabited localities in Russia in central Russia, the administrative centre of Kostroma Oblast. A part of the Golden ring of the Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers....
, Jaroslavl and Vladimir
Vladimir

Vladimir is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway . It is the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast....
. They were an old and important culture which is shown in the numerous archaeological finds in those areas.

There is an opinion that Merja is a west branch of Mari people
Mari people

The Mari are a Volga Finns people who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics....
 since Merya is Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 transcription of the existing self-name of west Maris ?ä?? (Mär?).






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The Merya people (; also Merä) were an ancient Finno-Ugric
Finno-Ugric peoples

The Finno-Ugric peoples is a historic linguistic group of peoples in Europe who speak Finno-Ugric languages, such as the Finnic peoples and the Ugric peoples ....
  people who lived in the regions of modern Russian cities of Rostov
Rostov

Rostov is one of the oldest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so called Golden ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nero in Yaroslavl Oblast....
, Kostroma
Kostroma

Kostroma is an historic types of inhabited localities in Russia in central Russia, the administrative centre of Kostroma Oblast. A part of the Golden ring of the Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers....
, Jaroslavl and Vladimir
Vladimir

Vladimir is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway . It is the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast....
. They were an old and important culture which is shown in the numerous archaeological finds in those areas.

There is an opinion that Merja is a west branch of Mari people
Mari people

The Mari are a Volga Finns people who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics....
 since Merya is Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 transcription of the existing self-name of west Maris ?ä?? (Mär?). All Merya toponimy is translated on base of Mari language
Mari language

The Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages branch of the Uralic languages language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari El of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka River river basin and eastwards to the Ural Mountains....
. Moreover, Russian chronicle "Kazanskaya Istoriya" mentions Cheremis people (Mari) as aborigens of Rostov
Rostov

Rostov is one of the oldest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so called Golden ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nero in Yaroslavl Oblast....
.

The Merya language
Merya language

The Merya language was the Uralic languages language spoken by the Merya tribe, which lived in what is today the Yaroslavl region north-east to Moscow ....
 was a Finnic language
Finnic languages

Finnic languages may refer to:*Finno-Permic languages*Finno-Volgaic languages*Baltic-Finnic languages and/or Volga-Finnic languages...
, related to the languages spoken by other tribes in the surrounding larger region, such as the Mari
Mari people

The Mari are a Volga Finns people who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics....
, the Mordvins
Mordvin people

The Mordvins are among the List of larger indigenous peoples of Russia. They speak languages of the Volga-Finnic languages branch of the Finno-Ugric language family....
, the Meshchera
Meshchera

The Meshchera were a Finno-Ugric tribe which lived in the territory between the Oka River and the Klyazma river. It was a land of forests, bogs and lakes....
 and the Veps, although its exact position within the broader Finno-Ugric language group
Finno-Ugric languages

Finno-Ugric is a group of languages in the Uralic languages family, comprising Finnish language, Estonian language, Hungarian language and related languages....
 remains debatable. They are mentioned by the 6th century Gothic
Goths

The Goths were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, invasion the Roman Empire and later adopted Arian Christianity. In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy....
 scholar Jordanes
Jordanes

Jordanes , was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat , who turned his hand to history later in life.Though he also wrote Romana , a book about the history of Rome, his most known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551 ....
 as the Merens and later by the Russian chronicles. Soviet archaeologists believed that the capital of the Merya was the site of Sarskoe Gorodishche to the south of Rostov. They were assimiliated by the Slavs. However, the Merya culture was also assimilated in those regions that were initially inhabited by Merya. Sacred woods and stones, worshipped by Merya, were part of local traditional feasts for much longer than the similar Slavic sacred places in the west regions of modern Russia.