Settlement zones of the Baltic-Finnish tribes in the X century BC e.
Sum - the name of the Baltic-Finnish tribe Suomi mentioned in Russian chronicles , who settled at the beginning of the 1st millennium AD. e. southwest coast of modern Finland .
Since the conquest of Finland by the Swedes in the middle of the XII century, the conquest of Finland began. Subsequently, the Sum together with the Emu and the Western Karelian tribes formed the Finnish nationality. Before the adoption of the Swedish name of the Finns in the Russian language, there was no single name for the inhabitants of this region.
Literature
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- Shaskolsky I.P. The struggle of Russia against the crusader aggression on the shores of the Baltic in the XII-XIII centuries. - L .: Nauka, 1978.- 245 p.