Baltic Finnic tribes

Baltic Finnic tribes appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Scandinavia and the Baltic (Europe) from c. 1500 BCE to 1250 CE, a span of 2,749 years. Its people spoke Uralic languages (Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Sami, Samoyed).

Ancestors of the Finns, Estonians, Karelians and Votes, farming and hunting around the Gulf of Finland. Danish, German and Swedish crusaders subjugated them in the 13th century.

See Baltic Finnic tribes on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 1500 BCE to 1250 CE

Duration

2,749 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Scandinavia and the Baltic, Europe

Language family

Uralic

Events in Europe during its time

• 1200 BCE Late Bronze Age collapse
• 776 BCE First Olympic Games
• 753 BCE Traditional founding of Rome
• 508 BCE Athenian democracy
• 480 BCE Battle of Salamis
• 334 BCE Alexander invades Persia
• 218 BCE Hannibal crosses the Alps
• 44 BCE Assassination of Julius Caesar

Neighbours in Europe

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE
• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE
• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE
• Roman Empire 27 BCE to 395 CE
• Kievan Rus 882 to 1240 CE
• Athens 508 to 322 BCE
• Hunnic Empire c. 370 to 469 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Swahili city-states c. 800 to 1700 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Srivijaya c. 650 to 1377 CE, Southeast Asia
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America
• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Khmer Empire 802 to 1431 CE, Southeast Asia
• Tiwanaku c. 400 to 1000 CE, South America

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