Ugaunians[1] or Ugannians[2] (Estonian: ugalased;[3] Latvian: ugauņi), referred to as Chudes by the earliest Russian chronicles,[4] were a historic Finnic people inhabiting the southern Estonian Ugandi County (Latin: Ungannia;[5] also Ugania, Ugaunia) that is now Tartu, Põlva, Võru and Valga counties of Estonia.