Mordvins, a Finnic race, now however greatly intermingled with the Russians, who dwell along the middle course of the Volga, from the government of Nijni-Novgorod to that of Samara. They number about 790,000.
Mordvins
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 304
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