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See also:CHEREMISSES, or TCHEREMISSES , a Finnish See also:people living in isolated See also:groups in the governments of Kazan, Viatka, See also:Novgorod, See also:Perm, See also:Kostroma and See also:Ufa, eastern See also:Russia. Their name for themselves is Mori or Mari (people), possibly identifiable with the See also:ancient Merians of Suzdalia. Their See also:language belongs to the Finno-Ugrian See also:family. They number some 240,000. There are two distinct See also:physical types: one of See also:middle height, See also:black-haired, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown skin and See also:flat-faced; the other See also:short, See also:fair-haired, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white skinned, with narrow eyes and straight short noses. Those who live on the right See also:bank of the See also:Volga are sometimes known as See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill Cheremis, and are taller and stronger than those who inhabit the swamps' of the See also:left bank. They are farmers and See also:herd horses and See also:cattle. Their See also:religion is a hotchpotch of See also:Shamanism, Mahommedanism and See also:Christianity. They are usually monogamous. The See also:chief ceremony of See also:marriage is a forcible abductionof the See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride. The See also:women, naturally ugly, are often disfigured by sore eyes caused by the smoky See also:atmosphere of the huts. They See also:wear a See also:head-See also:dress, trimmed with See also:glass jewels, forming a See also:hood behind stiffened with See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal. On their breasts they carry a breastplate formed of coins, small bells and See also:copper disks.
See Smirinov, Mordres et Tcheremisses (See also:Paris, 1895) ; J. See also:Abercromby, Pre- and Proto-historic Finns (See also:London, 1898).
End of Article: CHEREMISSES, or TCHEREMISSES
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