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6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your Merya wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.
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8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Merya site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site
9. Contact - got a question about Merya, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.
10. Payment - ready to pay for your Merya, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.
cultures in European Russia, in the
9th century. The Merya region is shown in purpleThe
Meri people (; also
Meryas or
Merä) were an ancient
Finno Ugrian tribe who lived in the region of modern Russian cities of Moscow, Rostov, Kostroma, Jaroslavl and
Vladimir. They probably spoke a Finnic language related to the languages spoken by other tribes in the surrounding larger region, such as the
Mari people, the Mordvin people, the Meshchera and the Veps who were their neighbours. They were an old and important culture which is shown in the numerous archaeological finds in those areas.
They are mentioned by the
6th century Goths scholar
Jordanes as the
Merens and later by the Russian chronicles. Soviet archaeologists believed that the capital of the Merya was the site of Sarskoe Gorodishche to the south of Rostov.
According to recent Finnish and Estonian estimates, based to the population figures of the Baltic area (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), roughly a similar area of size than Merja, by the end of 1100 century the number of Meri population was as high as more than 800.000 peoples. They were one of the five peoples who took part of the founding of Novgorod and thus played important role in creating the modern Russian state. Their role has been negleted in Russian history, but now, after 1998, when a closed archive was located and opened to public, a lot of new (old) Russian information have come to light and provides fascenating facts, even written Meri language including transliteration of Biblial Old Testament to Meri language in 1000 century. It was also proven that Meri language was still widely used in the countryside as late as the time of Alexander I after the Napoleon War against the Russia in 1812.
They were assimiliated by the Slavs. However, the Merya culture was also assimilated in those regions that were initially inhabited by Merya. Sacred woods and stones, worshipped by Merya, were part of local traditional feasts for much longer than the similar Slavic sacred places in the west regions of modern Russia.
Also the name Merya (in some cases spoken like 'Nerya') is still kept in a lot of local toponyms, and was preserved later in a much more vast number of them. The examples are: Nero Lake near
Rostov the Great,
Nerskaya River near Kurovskoe in Moscow Oblast, Nerskoe Lake in
Solnechnogorsky region of Moscow Oblast, villages 'Nerya' etc.
See also
References
- Aleksey Uvarov, "Étude sur les peuples primitifs de la Russie. Les mériens" (1875).
cultures in European Russia, in the 9th century. The Merya region is shown in purpleThe
Meri people (; also
Meryas or
Merä) were an ancient
Finno Ugrian tribe who lived in the region of modern Russian cities of Moscow, Rostov,
Kostroma, Jaroslavl and
Vladimir. They probably spoke a Finnic language related to the languages spoken by other tribes in the surrounding larger region, such as the
Mari people, the
Mordvin people, the Meshchera and the Veps who were their neighbours. They were an old and important culture which is shown in the numerous archaeological finds in those areas.
They are mentioned by the
6th century Goths scholar Jordanes as the
Merens and later by the Russian chronicles. Soviet archaeologists believed that the capital of the Merya was the site of Sarskoe Gorodishche to the south of Rostov.
According to recent Finnish and Estonian estimates, based to the population figures of the Baltic area (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), roughly a similar area of size than Merja, by the end of 1100 century the number of Meri population was as high as more than 800.000 peoples. They were one of the five peoples who took part of the founding of Novgorod and thus played important role in creating the modern Russian state. Their role has been negleted in Russian history, but now, after 1998, when a closed archive was located and opened to public, a lot of new (old) Russian information have come to light and provides fascenating facts, even written Meri language including transliteration of Biblial Old Testament to Meri language in 1000 century. It was also proven that Meri language was still widely used in the countryside as late as the time of Alexander I after the Napoleon War against the Russia in 1812.
They were assimiliated by the Slavs. However, the Merya culture was also assimilated in those regions that were initially inhabited by Merya. Sacred woods and stones, worshipped by Merya, were part of local traditional feasts for much longer than the similar Slavic sacred places in the west regions of modern Russia.
Also the name Merya (in some cases spoken like 'Nerya') is still kept in a lot of local toponyms, and was preserved later in a much more vast number of them. The examples are:
Nero Lake near Rostov the Great,
Nerskaya River near Kurovskoe in Moscow Oblast, Nerskoe Lake in Solnechnogorsky region of
Moscow Oblast, villages 'Nerya' etc.
See also
References
- Aleksey Uvarov, "Étude sur les peuples primitifs de la Russie. Les mériens" (1875).
