Sami people

Sami people appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Scandinavia and the Baltic (Europe) from c. 1000 BCE to the present, a span of 3,024 years. Its people spoke Uralic languages (Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Sami, Samoyed).

Reindeer herders, fishers and hunters of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula. Their homeland, Sapmi, was divided among the Nordic states and Russia from the 1600s on.

See Sami people on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 1000 BCE to the present

Duration

3,024 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Scandinavia and the Baltic, Europe

Language family

Uralic

Events in Europe during its time

• 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
• 9 Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Neighbours in Europe

• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE
• Ottoman Empire 1299 to 1922 CE
• Portuguese Empire 1415 to 1999 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
• Habsburg Monarchy 1526 to 1804 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
• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• 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

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