Pomor merchants

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Pomor merchants were seafaring traders from the northern coasts of Russia who conducted extensive commerce and navigation in the White Sea and Arctic regions from the Middle Ages onward.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Pomors 7
Pomor culture 3
Pomor merchants canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf merchant community
social group
trading people
activity coastal navigation
fishing
fur trade
grain trade
hunting of marine mammals
maritime trade
salt production
seafaring
timber trade
country Russia
culturalRegion Pomorye
economicRole integration of Russian North into European trade
ethnicGroup Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
floruit 16th century
17th century
18th century
historicalPeriod Russian Empire
Tsardom of Russia
knownFor adaptation to polar climate
barter trade with Norwegians
development of White Sea trade routes
expertise in Arctic navigation
languageUsed Pomor dialects of Russian
Russian
navigationSeason ice-free months of the Arctic seas
portOfOrigin Arkhangelsk
Kem
Kholmogory
Onega
linked to: Onega Bay

Solovetsky Islands
region Arctic Ocean
Barents Sea
Russian North
linked to: Northern Russia

White Sea
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
seaRoute White Sea–Barents Sea route
White Sea–Norwegian coast route
White Sea–Spitsbergen route
startTime Middle Ages
tradePartner Northern European merchants
Norwegian coastal communities
indigenous peoples of the Russian Arctic
vesselTypeUsed koch
pomor lodja

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kholmogory associatedWith Pomor merchants
Arkhangelsk Oblast culturalGroup Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomor merchants ethnicGroup Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
White Sea trade route associatedWith Pomor seafaring communities
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomor area traditionalInhabitants Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomor area ethnicGroupAssociated Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomor area culturalTradition Pomor culture
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomorye traditionalInhabitants Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomorye associatedEthnicGroup Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomorye hasCulturalHeritage Pomor culture
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomor Russian historicallySpokenBy Pomors
linked to: Pomor merchants
Pomor Russian culturalAssociation Pomor culture
linked to: Pomor merchants