Mordva

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Mordva is the collective name for the Mordvin people, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group indigenous to the Volga region of Russia with distinct Erzya and Moksha subgroups.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Mordvin people 2
Mordvinic peoples 2
Mordovian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finno-Ugric people
ethnic group
indigenous people
alsoKnownAs Mordvin people
linked to: Erzya people
country Russia
culturalArea Middle Volga region
linked to: Middle Volga basin
ethnolinguisticGroup Finno-Ugric
hasAutonomousRegion Republic of Mordovia
hasSubgroup Erzya
Moksha
historicalRegion Mordvinia
linked to: Mordovia
indigenousTo European Russia
Volga region
language Erzya language
Moksha language
Russian language
mainReligionToday Eastern Orthodoxy
minorityStatus national minority in Russia
partOf Uralic peoples
populationConcentration Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Penza Oblast
Republic of Mordovia
Samara Oblast
Saratov Oblast
primaryCountryOfResidence Russia
recognizedAs indigenous minority of Russia
relatedEthnicGroup Estonians
Finns
Komi people
linked to: Komi

Mari people
Udmurt people
linked to: Udmurts
traditionalCraft embroidery
weaving
woodcarving
traditionalDressFeature beaded headdresses
richly embroidered garments
traditionalEconomy agriculture
animal husbandry
beekeeping
fishing
traditionalLanguageBranch Finno-Volgaic
traditionalLanguageFamily Uralic languages
traditionalMusic polyphonic singing
traditionalReligion Islam
Lutheranism
Mordvin paganism
Russian Orthodoxy
usesWritingSystem Cyrillic script

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mordvins autonym Mordva
Mordovia namedAfter Mordvin people
linked to: Mordva
Republic of Mordovia demonym Mordovian
linked to: Mordva
Republic of Mordovia namedAfter Mordvin people
linked to: Mordva
Baltic Finnic peoples areRelatedTo Volga Finnic peoples
linked to: Mordva
Uralic peoples hasSubgroup Mordvinic peoples
linked to: Mordva
Moksha ethnolinguisticGroup Mordvinic peoples
linked to: Mordva