Great Perm

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Principality of Great Perm
Ыджыт Перем Öксуму, 𐍨𐍓𐍖𐍨𐍢 𐍟𐍔𐍠𐍔𐍜 𐍞𐍚𐍡𐍣𐍜𐍣
1323–1505
Grand Duchy of Moscow
1505
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Novgorod Republic
Grand Duchy of Moscow
Gerard Mercator
(Amsterdam, 1595).

Great Perm (

Russian Federation. Cherdyn is said to have been its capital.[2]

The origin of the name Perm is uncertain. Most common explanation derives the name "Perm" from "parma" ("forested highlands" in Komi language). While the city of

Principality of Great Perm

The Principality of Great Perm (

Muscovite
rule, but was eventually absorbed into it in 1505.

The principality was located in the

Kazan. Finally in 1472 an army of vassals of Moscow with the princes Vymsky among them conquered Great Perm and captured their brother Prince Mikhail Velikopermsky. Nevertheless, the latter soon came back again from Moscow as governor and ruled his domain for life. His son Matthew Velikopermsky was finally deposed by the Grand Prince of Moscow in 1505.[7]

Up to the early 18th century, the name Great Perm was officially used of the

Stroganov
family.

The name was borrowed (as the 'Permian' period) by the nineteenth century geologist Sir Roderick Murchison to refer to rocks of a certain age, following extensive studies which he conducted in the region.

See also

References

  1. ^ Introduction to Latin epigraphy (Введение в латинскую эпиграфику) Archived 2021-03-10 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Article on Cherdyn at uraltourism.com.
  3. ^ Ferdinand Heinrich Müller, Der ugrische Volksstamm, oder Untersuchungen über die Ländergebiete am Ural und am Kaukasus, in historischer, geographischer und ethnographischer Beziehung (1839), 334.
  4. ^ E.g. Allan S. C. Ross, "OWN Bjarmar : Russian Perm", Leeds Studies in English and Kindred Languages 6 (1937), 5-13. Ross (1937) suggests that the name is from an Old Norse term for "edge, shore", the bjarmar being the "people from the edge", a name which would then have been taken over by the population and changed to permi.
  5. Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde
    , vol. 33, p. 425.
  6. ^ Janet Martin, 'Treasure from the Land of Darkness:The Fur Trade and its significance for Medieval Russia',1986,page 7
  7. ^ Article on Great Perm at heritage.perm.ru Archived 2006-09-29 at the Wayback Machine.

Further reading

  • V. Oborin. The Settlement and Developing of Ural in Late Eleventh – Early Seventeenth Centuries. University of Irkutsk, 1990.

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