Votes

The Votes (proper names: Vadjalain, vadjakko ) are originally a small, Estonians related baltic finnish people in Ingria. Originally coming from the Baltic-Finnic settlement area in Estonia, invaded the Votes on the Neva River to the east in the coastal areas of Ingria ago. From a chronicle from the year 854 shows that they sold along with other Slavic and Finnish tribes, the Varangians from Ingria. Nevertheless, they were subjected to and Christianized by the end of the 13th century Novgorod. It, however, a fifth wotisches was established as an administrative district of the Republic of Novgorod.