Topic summary
Merya people
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Meryans.
The Meryans (Russian: меряне, romanized: meryane) or Merya people (Russian: меря, romanized: merya) were an ancient Finnic people that lived in the Upper Volga region. The Primary Chronicle places them around the Nero and Pleshcheyevo lakes. They were assimilated by the Russians by the 17th century, but there has been a modern revival of Meryan culture and language, termed Meryan ethnofuturism.