History of Vladimir Oblast

The Grand Principality of Vladimir, before 1157 the Principality of Suzdal, and commonly known as Vladimir-Suzdal, or simply Suzdalia and Vladimiria, was a medieval principality that was established during the disintegration of Kievan Rus'. In historiography, the territory of the grand principality and the principalities that emerged from it is commonly denoted as northeast Russia or northeast Rus.

thumb|Merya jewellery, 10th century The Meryans () or Merya people () were an ancient Finnic people that lived in the Upper Volga region. The Primary Chronicle places them around the Nero and Pleshcheyevo lakes. They were assimilated by the Russians by the 17th century, but there has been a modern revival of Meryan culture and language, termed Meryan ethnofuturism.