pmaitra
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What is the source of this map?
I see some inaccuracies and omissions in the quoted map. All alternative hypotheses are also theories.
Most of the Scandinavian Peninsula (east of the Gulf of Bothnia), around 8th and 9th centuries, according to the map below, was inhabited by the Vikings, and not by the Finno-Ugric tribes. The red blot to the east between the green and orange zones is where Prince Rurik landed the first time, to be eventually defeated by the Slavs and sent back to Scandinavian Peninsula.
The Finno-Ugric languages developed this way (of course, this is a reconstruction by linguists, and this is believed to be the path of migration of the Finno-Ugric people):
The quoted map shows Finno-Ugric people's land ending abruptly at the Ural Mountains in an almost straight line. This is certainly false. The Finno-Ugric lands begin at the top of the Gulf of Bothnia and end up into the middle of North-Central Asia:
Apart from that, the individual nations marked or omitted are as follows:
- Mordvins are Volga Finns.
- Bashkortostan was historically inhabited by Finno-Ugric tribes, although, there have been Turkic migrations later on.
- Udmurtiya, the home of the AK-47, was also inhabited by Finno-Ugric tribes.
- Magyars are a Finno-Ugric tribe that migrated from the Urals all the way to where Hungary today is. See spoiler below.