On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Karelia. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Karelia meaning
- A historical region of Northern Europe, located to the north of Saint Petersburg and politically split between Russia and Finland.
- A republic and federal subject of Russia. Official name: Republic of Karelia. Capital: Petrozavodsk.
Synonyms of Karelia
Using Karelia
- The main meaning on this page is: A historical region of Northern Europe, located to the north of Saint Petersburg and politically split between Russia and Finland. | A republic and federal subject of Russia. Official name: Republic of Karelia. Capital: Petrozavodsk.
- Useful related words include: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region.
- In the example corpus, karelia often appears in combinations such as: the karelia, russia's karelia, of karelia.
Context around Karelia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Karelia
- In this selection, "karelia" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, russian, ladoga, submarine, suite, detected and contributed stand out and add context to how "karelia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 11 the karelia suite and and the karelia suite. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "karelia" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with karelia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Refugees from Karelia contributed to foods in eastern Finland. (9 words)
Russia assigned Karelia ("Old Finland") to the Grand Duchy in 1812. (11 words)
The wall in the background carries the names of Finnish dead buried inside Karelia. (14 words)
Aino lived there for the next 12 years until she died on 8 June 1969; she is buried alongside her husband. citation Music seeAlso Sibelius is widely known for his symphonies and his tone poems, especially Finlandia and the Karelia suite. (41 words)
General Mannerheim resigned his post on 25 May after disagreements with the Senate about German hegemony over Finland, and about his planned attacks on Petrograd to repulse the Bolsheviks, and to Russian Karelia. (33 words)
Marjatta's son is later condemned to death by Väinämöinen for being born out of wedlock, the boy in turn chastises Väinämöinen and is later crowned King of Karelia. (29 words)
Example sentences (16)
Sailors aboard the Russian submarine Karelia detected the explosions but presumed they were related to a major naval exercise of which the Karelia was a part.
Finland was also required to clear the minefields in Karelia (including East Karelia) and in the Gulf of Finland.
By the decision of the government, the forestry minister has been appointed point man for the development of cooperation between Belarus and Russia's Karelia.
Karelia’s regional Deputy Governor Vladimir Timofeev says he discussed the project with Chinese officials on a visit to China’s Fujian Province last week.
Aino lived there for the next 12 years until she died on 8 June 1969; she is buried alongside her husband. citation Music seeAlso Sibelius is widely known for his symphonies and his tone poems, especially Finlandia and the Karelia suite.
During the first part of the trip, Lönnrot returned to Akonlahti in Russian Karelia, where he gathered 80 poems and a total of 800 verses.
General Mannerheim resigned his post on 25 May after disagreements with the Senate about German hegemony over Finland, and about his planned attacks on Petrograd to repulse the Bolsheviks, and to Russian Karelia.
He soon received a grant to study runo singers in Karelia and continued his rise as the first prominent Finnish musician.
Ladoga Karelia, as a large forest wilderness, did not have road networks for the modern Red Army.
Marjatta's son is later condemned to death by Väinämöinen for being born out of wedlock, the boy in turn chastises Väinämöinen and is later crowned King of Karelia.
Refugees from Karelia contributed to foods in eastern Finland.
Russia assigned Karelia ("Old Finland") to the Grand Duchy in 1812.
The strength of the Red Army north of Lake Ladoga (in Ladoga Karelia) surprised the Finnish General Staff.
The "Suite" emerged from a concert on 23 November consisting of the overture and the three movements which were published as Op. 11, the Karelia Suite.
The wall in the background carries the names of Finnish dead buried inside Karelia.
This allowed the second Soviet offensive in Eastern Karelia to meet less resistance and to capture Petrozavodsk by 28 June 1944.
Common combinations with karelia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the karelia 3×
- russia's karelia 2×
- of karelia 2×
- in karelia 2×
- karelia and 2×
- karelia suite 2×
- russian karelia 2×
- ladoga karelia 2×