Angeli ( se, Áŋŋel) is a village in
Lapland. It is west of
village of Inari in the
municipality of Inari near the
Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area in Finland. The
Inari River flows by the village, which is located close to the
Norwegian border. Most of the people speak
Northern Sámi
Northern or North Sámi ( ; se, davvisámegiella ; fi, pohjoissaame ; no, nordsamisk; sv, nordsamiska; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sámi languages. The area where Northern Sámi is spoken covers the ...
as their native language.
The village is connected by all-weather gravel roads north to
Karigasniemi
Karigasniemi ( se, Gáregasnjárga) is a village in the municipality of Utsjoki in Finland. It lies at the foot of Mount Ailigás.
The village is situated on the border between Norway and Finland south-east of the Norwegian village of Karas ...
and east to the
village of Inari.
History
The name of Angeli is derived from the surname Angeli, originating from the village of
Peltovuoma (Bealdovuopmi) in
Enontekiö
Enontekiö (; sme, Eanodat ; sv, Enontekis; smn, Iänudâh; sms, Jeänõk) is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approx. inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very spa ...
. The surname is derived from the name of the lake ''Angelijärvi'', itself derived from a
Kemi Sámi word referring to the
long-tailed duck (compare Inari Sámi ''áŋálâh''). In the middle of the 19th century, two young men from the Angeli family moved from Peltovuoma to Inari, with the village eventually growing around their settlement.
People
*
Ulla Pirttijärvi
See also
*
Angelit
*
Lappmarken
Lappmarken was an earlier Swedish name for the northern part of the old Kingdom of Sweden inhabited by the Sami people. In addition to the present-day Swedish Lapland, it also covered Västerbotten, Jämtland and Härjedalen, as well as the Fi ...
*
Lääni
*
Sami people
Acronyms
* SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft
* Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company
* South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise ...
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Sápmi (area)
(, smj, Sábme / Sámeednam, sma, Saepmie, sju, Sábmie, , , sjd, Са̄мь е̄ммьне, Saam' jiemm'n'e) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi is in Northern and Eastern Europe and includes the ...
References
External links
Angeli on Google Maps
Villages in Inari, Finland
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