Assimilation of the Kola Sami (Part II)

During 2000 AD, groups of the Sami population living on Kola Peninsula were assimilated by ancestors of Veps, Karelian, and Russians or pushed partially away to the far north. The earliest data about Sami of Kola Peninsula (the “Terffinns”) appears in the end of the ninth century. 
The first contacts between the Sami of the Kola [...]