Karelia (disambiguation)

Karelia (disambiguation)

Karelia can refer to

* Karelia, the land of Karelians, in its most general sense
* Republic of Karelia - an autonomous republic in Russia ("Eastern Karelia")
** Karelo-Finnish SSR - a Soviet Republic (1940-1956)
** East Karelia - the cultural root of Finnishness, the land of the Kalevala
* Finnish Karelia - a historical province of Sweden and Finland ("Western Karelia")
** Ladoga Karelia (most of which was ceded in 1940)
*** North Karelia - an administrative region in present-day Finland
** Karelian Isthmus (most of which was ceded in 1940)
*** South Karelia - an administrative region in present-day Finland
* Tver Karelia in the Tver Oblast

*Karelia Suite of classical music by Jean Sibelius
*Karelia Software, LLC - a Macintosh software company in California

*Food
** Karelian pasties - Karelian food
** Karelian Hot Pot - Karelian food

*Karelian Bear Dog

* Karelia Tobacco Company is also a Greek based cigarettes industry

* The Karelia (Band) was also a previous band of Alex Kapranos

* Karelia - a french heavy metal band

* Karelia - A Finnish folk-jazz group of the 1970s

* "Karelia" - a name of Russian Delta-IV class submarine.


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