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History of Finland Also include, Finland Culture, Finland
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tourism and investment. Present-day Finland became habitable in
about 8,000 B.C., following the northward retreat of the
glaciers, and at about that time Neolithic peoples migrated
into the country. According to the legends found in the Finnish
folk epic, the Kalevala, those early inhabitants included the
people of the mythical land Pohjola, against whom the Kalevala
people-- identified with the Finns--struggled; however,
archaeological and linguistic evidence of the prehistory of the
region is fragmentary.
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According to the traditional view of Finnish prehistory,
ancestors of the Finns migrated westward and northward from
their ancestral home in the Volga River basin during the second
millennium B.C., arriving on the southern shore of the Baltic
Sea sometime during the next millennium. According to this folk
history, the early Finns began a migration from present-day
Estonia into Finland in the first century A.D. and settled
along the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland. Recent
research, suggesting that the Finns arrived in the region at a
much earlier date, perhaps by 3,000 B.C., has questioned this
traditional view, however