Angeli () is a village in
Lapland. It is west of
village of Inari in the
municipality of Inari near the
Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area
The Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area (''Muotkatunturin erämaa-alue'') is a wilderness reserve in the municipalities Inari and Utsjoki in Lapland, Finland, established in 1991. Its area is . Muotkatunturi is a reindeer management area, and forestr ...
in Finland. The
Inari River
Inari may refer to:
Shinto
* Inari Ōkami, a Shinto spirit
** Mount Inari in Japan, site of Fushimi Inari-taisha, the main Shinto shrine to Inari
** Inari shrine, dedicated to the Shinto god Inari
* Inari-zushi, a type of sushi
Places
* Inari, ...
flows by the village, which is located close to the
Norwegian border. Most of the people speak
Northern Sámi
Northern Sámi or North Sámi ( ; ; ; ; ; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sámi languages. The area where Northern Sámi is spoken covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Geographic distr ...
as their native language.
The village is connected by all-weather gravel roads north to
Karigasniemi
Karigasniemi () 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 Karasjok. It lies on the ba ...
and east to the
village of Inari.
Angeli is called the "darkest village in Finland"; measured on the
Bortle scale
The Bortle dark-sky scale (usually referred to as simply the Bortle scale) is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a particular location. It quantifies the astronomical observability of celestial objects and the ...
, Angeli's degree of darkness is one, which is why the darkness is so deep at
night time that not even shapes can be distinguished from the landscape of the horizon.
History
The name of Angeli is derived from the surname Angeli, originating from the village of
Peltovuoma (Bealdovuopmi) in
Enontekiö
Enontekiö (; ; ; ; ) is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approximately inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very sparsely populated area of about between the Swedis ...
. The surname is derived from the name of the lake ''Angelijärvi'', itself derived from a
Kemi Sámi
Kemi Sámi was a Sámi language that was originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sámi siidas around Kuusamo.
A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sámi dialects, b ...
word referring to the
long-tailed duck
The long-tailed duck (''Clangula hyemalis'') or coween, is a medium-sized sea duck that breeds in the tundra and taiga regions of the arctic and winters along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is the only member of ...
(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.
Notable people
*
Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman
Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman is a Sami joik singer from the village of Angeli (Sami: Aŋŋel), Finland. She began her career with the music group Angelin Tytöt, but left soon after to pursue a solo career. She performs traditional joik music ...
(born 1971), a
joik
A joik or yoik (anglicised, where the latter spelling in English conforms with the pronunciation; also named , , , or in the Sámi languages) is a traditional form of song in Sámi music performed by the Sámi people of Sápmi in Northern E ...
singer
See also
*
Angelit
Angelit, formerly known as Angelin tytöt (''Aŋŋel nieiddat''), is a Finnish Sámi folk music group formed by sisters Ursula and Tuuni Länsman in 1989. However, the history of the group can be traced back to 1982 when Eino Ukkonen, Ursula and ...
*
Lappmarken
*
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 ...
*
Sápmi (area)
is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia, stretching over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Most of Sápmi lies north of the Arctic Circle, boun ...
References
External links
Angeli on Google Maps
Villages in Inari, Finland
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