Vienan Karjala

Finnish

Location of White Karelia.

Etymology

This part of Karelia has historically belonged to Novgorod and later Russia since the 15th century, and was for a long time governed from the city of Archangel, which was in Finnish known as Viena or later Vienankaupunki, hence this region came to be known as Vienan Karjala ("Archangel's Karelia").

Proper noun

Vienan Karjala

  1. White Karelia; a region east of the White Sea in NW Russia, now part of the Republic of Karelia.

Declension

Inflection of Vienan Karjala (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative Vienan Karjala
genitive Vienan Karjalan
partitive Vienan Karjalaa
illative Vienan Karjalaan
singular plural
nominative Vienan Karjala
accusative nom. Vienan Karjala
gen. Vienan Karjalan
genitive Vienan Karjalan
partitive Vienan Karjalaa
inessive Vienan Karjalassa
elative Vienan Karjalasta
illative Vienan Karjalaan
adessive Vienan Karjalalla
ablative Vienan Karjalalta
allative Vienan Karjalalle
essive Vienan Karjalana
translative Vienan Karjalaksi
instructive
abessive Vienan Karjalatta
comitative

Synonyms

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