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There are around 915,000 Estonians living in Estonia.
Notable emigration, diaspora? To be written.
The name "Eesti", or Estonia, is derived from the word "Aestii", the name given by the ancient Germans to the peoples living northeast of the Vistula River. The Roman historian Tacitus in 98 A.D. was the first to mention the "Aestii" people, and early Scandinavians called the land south of the Gulf of Finland "Eistland", and the people "eistr".
Estonians belong to the Balto- Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric peoples, as do the Finns. The principal ancestors of the Estonians arrived from the east around 3,500 BC. The first book in Estonian was printed in 1525, while the oldest known examples of written Estonian originate in 13th century chronicles.
Estonians have strong ties to the Nordic countries today, stemming from strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Scandinavian colonization and settlement.
From 1945-89 the percentage of ethnic Estonians in Estonia dropped from 94% to 61%, caused primarily by the Soviet program promoting mass immigration of urban industrial workers from Russia, UkraineUkraine Ukrayina in Ukrainian; in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders the Black Sea to the south, the Russian Federation to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west and Romania and Moldova to the west and, and BelarusThe Republic of Belarus ( Belarusian: #x301 Russian: #x301 (former: #x301 ) is a landlocked nation of Eastern Europe with the capital Minsk. Name Main article: White Russia The spellings Belorussia and Byelorussia are transliterations of the name of the c, as well as by wartime emigration and Stalin's mass deportationsPopulation transfer is a term referring to a policy by which a state forces the movement of a large group of people out of a region, invariably on the basis of ethnicity or religion. By contrast, individuals and smaller groups of their politically effecti and executions.