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Votes are people of Votia in Ingria

Ingria

Ingria is a historical region within Russia, comprising the southern bank of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipus in the west, and Lake Ladoga and the western bank of the Volkhov river in the east....
(part of modern day northwestern Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, roughly (south)west of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
, near, and east of the Estonian border-town of Narva

Narva

Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the Extreme points of Estonia, by the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus....
). Their own ethnic name is Vadjalain (plural: Vadjalaizõt). The Finno-Ugric

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....
Votic language

Votic language

Votic or Votian is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria. It is closely related to Estonian language and belongs to the Balto-Finnic languages subgroup of Finno-Ugric languages....
spoken by Votes is close to extinction

Extinction

In biology and ecology, extinction is the death of every member of a species or group of taxon. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species ....
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Votes are people of Votia in Ingria

Ingria

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, roughly (south)west of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Narva

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....
Votic language

Votic language

Extinction

Veliky Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod is the foremost historic Types of inhabited localities in Russia of North-Western Russia and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast....
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As a distinct people

Nation

A nation is a cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other, yet feel a common bond, it may be considered an imagined community....
, Votes have become practically extinct after Stalinist dispersion to Soviet provinces far away — as 'punishment' for alleged disloyalty and cowardice during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. In 1989, there were still 62 known Votes left, the youngest of whom was born in 1930. In 1848, the number of Votes had been 5148 (Ariste 1981: 78).

Along with the Izhorians

Izhorians

The Izhorians , along with the Votes are an Indigenous peoples of Ingria. They can still be found in the Western part of Ingria, between the Narva River and Neva rivers....
, they are generally Orthodox

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world with an estimated 225 million members worldwide. It is considered by its adherents to be the Four Marks of the Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago....
, while the other Finnic

Finnic

Finnic can refer to:* Finnic languages* Finnic peoples Adding long comment tag to protect...
inhabitants of Ingria, the Ingrian Finns

Ingrian Finns

The Ingrian Finns are the Finnish people population of Ingria descending from Lutheran Finnish immigrants to the area in the 17th century....
, are Lutheran

Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century Germans Reformer Martin Luther....
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Votes in Latvia

The historical sources inform that about 1445 the Livonian Order

Livonian Order

The Livonian Order was an autonomous Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order and a member of the Livonian Confederation from 1435–1561....
captured many people in Ingermanland and moved them to Bauska

Bauska

Bauska is a town in Bauska District, in the Zemgale region of southern Latvia. The town is situated at the confluence of the rivers Mu?a and Nemunelis where they form the Lielupe River....
, where working force was needed to built a castle. After the castle was built, the Vots did not go back but were settled in the vicinities of Bauska and became farmers. Gradually, they forgot their own language and customs and were assimilated in neighboring Latvians

Latvians

Latvians , the indigenous Balts people of Latvia, occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia....
. This process was not very fast - it is estimated that about 1000 Vots could yet be counted there 400 years later in the middle of the 19th century.

Bibliography

Paul Ariste
Paul Ariste

Paul Ariste was an Estonian linguistics renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages , Yiddish and Baltic Romani language. He was born as Paul Berg, but in 1927 Estonized his name to Ariste....
1981. Keelekontaktid. Tallinn: Valgus. [pt. 2.6. Kolme läänemere keele hääbumine lk. 76 - 82]

Votes

Votes in Latvia

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