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Votes are people of Votia in Ingria (part of modern day northwestern Russia, roughly (south)west of Saint Petersburg, near, and east of the Estonian border-town of Narva). Votes are people of Votia in Ingria (part of modern day northwestern Russia, roughly (southwest of Saint Petersburg, near and east For the Italian municipality see Ingria Italy. For the Brachiopod Genus, see Ingria (brachiopod. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Narva is the third largest City in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, by the Russian border on the Narva Their own ethnic name is Vadjalain (plural: Vadjalaizõt). The Finno-Ugric Votic language spoken by Votes is close to extinction, although they have never been a numerous people. Finno-Ugric (ˌfɪnoʊˈjuːgɹɪk is a grouping of languages in the Uralic language family comprising Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Votic or Votian is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria. In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa.

As a distinct people, Votes have become practically extinct after Stalinist dispersion to Soviet provinces far away — as 'punishment' for alleged disloyalty and cowardice during World War II. A nation is a Human Cultural and Social Community. In as much as most members never meet each other yet feel a common bond it may be considered Stalinism is the political regime named after Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1929–1953 World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including 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, they are generally Orthodox, while the other Finnic inhabitants of Ingria, the Ingrian Finns, are Lutheran. The Izhorians ( sg ižoralaine, inkeroine, ižora) along with the Votes are an indigenous people of Ingria The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world The Ingrian Finns (inkeriläinen or inkerinsuomalainen were the Finnish rural Peasant population of Ingria (now the central Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther

Votes in Latvia

The historical sources inform that about 1445 the Livonian Order captured many people in Ingermanland and moved them to Bauska, where working force was needed to built a castle. The Livonian Order was autonomous Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order and a member of the Livonian Confederation from 1418&ndash1561 For the Italian municipality see Ingria Italy. For the Brachiopod Genus, see Ingria (brachiopod. Bauska ( is a Town in Bauska County, in the Zemgale region of southern Latvia. 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 or Letts (latvieši the indigenous Baltic people of Latvia, occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which 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 1981. Paul Ariste ( February 3[[ 905]] Torma, Jõgevamaa &ndash February 2[[ 990]] Tartu) was an Estonian Keelekontaktid. Tallinn: Valgus. [pt. 2. 6. Kolme läänemere keele hääbumine lk. 76 - 82] (Estonian)

External links

• Virtual Votia
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire - The Votes
• Ethnicity of the Latvian Vots - The Krieviņi