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 | In 1255 a bishop was appointed for the ‘Votian, Ingrian and Karelian pagans’. |
| Some Votians of Vaipoole got a chance to return to their native villages in a couple of years, others only after the death of Stalin - what made it more difficult was the fact that the villages were located in the so-called ‘border zone’. |
| Kettunen made four trips to the Votian Land, in 1911 he visited villages in the region of the western dialect, in 1913 the region of the eastern dialect and gathered material for his dictionary of the Mahu dialect to be published as late as in 1986. |
| Votian: General overview (888 words) |
| Genetically close to Votian are Ingrian, the Ingermanland dialects of Finnish and the North-Westren dialects of Estonian. |
| Votian children were taught in Ingrian at primary school together with Ingrians in the 1930s. |
| Votian songs are no longer sung, only one Votian woman was able to remember an old song that used to be sung while dancing in a ring. |
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