Pomors
Ethnographic group descended from Russian settlers and living on the White Sea coasts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pomors or Pomory (Russian: помо́ры, lit. 'seasiders', Russian pronunciation: [pɐˈmorɨ]) are an ethnographic group thought to be descended from Russian settlers (primarily from Veliky Novgorod) according to traditional Russian historiography, living on the White Sea coasts and the territory whose southern border lies on a watershed which separates the White Sea river basin from the basins of rivers that flow south.[2][3] Genetically, though, they are more closely related to indigenous Uralic ethnicities of the area and show no affiliations to Novgorod populations.[4][5][6]
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Not to be confused with Pomeranians or Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church.
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Total population | |
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2232 (2020 census) [1] | |
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Languages | |
Dialect of Russian: Pomor dialects | |
Religion | |
Eastern Orthodox Christians, Starovers | |
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Russians |
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