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Estonian researchers estimate that Baltic Finns have lived about 5000 years on the shores of the Baltic Sea. They arrived first in Latvia and established a culture around Daugava-river, and then started to move northward to Estonia. After some time, some of them moved to Finland, and then Finnish and Estonian cultures started to separate from each other, which is the start of Finnish culture. The culture inside The Peninsula of Finland started to be a distinctive entity of its own. Still Finnish dialects in South-West Finland resemble a lot Estonian language, as a reminder of this migration from Estonia to Finland. Ancient chronicles written by the neighbours of Finnic people described ancient Finns and Hungarians as blue-eyed and blond people. The proportion of blond and blue-eyed people among Finns is actually still the highest in the World, and that's why some European scientists have speculated that blond hair colour came originally from The Finnic people. So it is not the other way around, as many people expect.

Baltic Finnish culture in Latvia, called "Livonians" began to mix to Baltic tribe of Latgals, and together they formed the nation of Latvia. Latvians still have a significant proportion of Finnic paternal ancestral lines in their DNA.

In Finland few Finnish tribes lived for centuries separately in Southern Finland. Sometimes these tribes had some clashes, but they also intermingled with each other. Carelians lived in the East around the Lake Ladoga, Tavastians lived in Mainland Finland around current day cities of Tampere and Lahti. Their native land started just couple of dozen kilometers to North from the Gulf of Finland. The Northern Shore of the Gulf of Finland was mainly uninhabited until Swedes started to move there in the 1100s. Carelians and Tavastians mixed together and formed a new Finnish tribe called Savonians, which later became the biggest and most influential Finnish tribe. Most residents of Helsinki are ethnically Savonians.

A South-West Finnish tribe called "Finns Proper" started to intermingle peacefully with the Swedes around 1000 AD, and Swedes began to move to empty coastal areas of Finland. Finns and Swedes started to create a common society together. Finnish and Swedish tribes have never had a war with each other. Most people don't know that the unification of Sweden and Finland was totally peaceful, and led to a point when Swedish princes invited Finnish princes to the Swedish Royal Election on The Stones of Mora in Sweden in 1300s.

Finland joined Sweden peacefully during a couple hundred years of process, and it actually happened before The Kingdom of Sweden existed. Sweden was established in 1250, and South-West Finland was already a part of Swedish speaking society. Southern Finland belonged to the core of Sweden during the Swedish era of Finland. It was not a colony. But despite of that both Swedes and Finns saw that Finland and Sweden were two separate countries under the rule of the same monarchy. There were cultural differences between the two, and Finland was led autonomically from Turku. One of the main reasons why Åland Islands was given to Finland in 1921 was, that it belonged to Finland since ancient time. It belonged to Åboland, South-West Finland.

Fingol-theories don't belong to the Finnish identity. In Finland no one knew about them before the internet in the 1990s. It is a made up story among some questionable circles in the internet. It is a misconception of some weird researchers of the late 1800s Europe. When they visited Finland, they wrote bact to home in their letters, that not Fingols found yet, but there might be some of them somewhere. So Fingol-nonsense from the pits of the internet is not a part of Finnish mainstream culture.

Estonian researchers estimate that Baltic Finns have lived about 5000 years on the shores of the Baltic Sea. They arrived first in Latvia and established a culture around Daugava-river, and then started to move northward to Estonia. After some time, some of them moved to Finland, and then Finnish and Estonian cultures started to separate from each other, which is the start of Finnish culture. The culture inside The Peninsula of Finland started to be a distinctive entity of its own. Still Finnish dialects in South-West Finland resemble a lot Estonian language, as a reminder of this migration from Estonia to Finland. Ancient chronicles written by the neighbours of Finnic people described ancient Finns and Hungarians as blue-eyed and blond people. The proportion of blond and blue-eyed people among Finns is actually still the highest in the World, and that's why some European scientists have speculated that blond hair colour came originally from The Finnic people. So it is not the other way around, as many people expect.

Baltic Finnish culture in Latvia, called "Livonians" begun to mix to Baltic tribe of Latgals, and together they formed the nation of Latvia. Latvians still have a significant proportion of Finnic paternal ancestral lines in their DNA.

In Finland few Finnish tribes lived for centuries separately in Southern Finland. Sometimes these tribes had some clashes, but they also intermingled with each other. Carelians lived in the East around the Lake Ladoga, Tavastians lived in Mainland Finland around current day cities of Tampere and Lahti. Their native land started just couple of dozen kilometers to North from the Gulf of Finland. The Northern Shore of the Gulf of Finland was mainly uninhabited until Swedes started to move there in the 1100s. Carelians and Tavastians mixed together and formed a new Finnish tribe called Savonians, which later became the biggest and most influential Finnish tribe. Most residents of Helsinki are ethnically Savonians.

A South-West Finnish tribe called "Finns Proper" started to intermingle peacefully with the Swedes around 1000 AD, and Swedes begun to move to empty coastal areas of Finland. Finns and Swedes started to create a common society together. Finnish and Swedish tribes have never had a war with each other. Most people don't know that the unification of Sweden and Finland was totally peaceful, and led to a point when Swedish princes invited Finnish princes to the Swedish Royal Election on The Stones of Mora in Sweden in 1300s.

Finland joined Sweden peacefully during a couple hundred years of process, and it actually happened before The Kingdom of Sweden existed. Sweden was established in 1250, and South-West Finland was already a part of Swedish speaking society. Southern Finland belonged to the core of Sweden during the Swedish era of Finland. It was not a colony. But despite of that both Swedes and Finns saw that Finland and Sweden were two separate countries under the rule of the same monarchy. There were cultural differences between the two, and Finland was led autonomically from Turku. One of the main reasons why Åland Islands was given to Finland in 1921 was, that it belonged to Finland since ancient time. It belonged to Åboland, South-West Finland.

Fingol-theories don't belong to the Finnish identity. In Finland no one knew about them before the internet in the 1990s. It is a made up story among some questionable circles in the internet. It is a misconception of some weird researchers of the late 1800s Europe. When they visited Finland, they wrote bact to home in their letters, that not Fingols found yet, but there might be some of them somewhere. So Fingol-nonsense from the pits of the internet is not a part of Finnish mainstream culture.