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Kievan Rus', [a][b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [6][7] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [8] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [9][10] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [11][12] and Finnic, it was ruled by the Rurik dynasty, founded by ...
The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking numerous cities including the largest: Kiev (50,000 inhabitants) and Chernigov (30,000 inhabitants). The siege of Kiev in 1240 by the Mongols is generally held to mark the end of the state of Kievan Rus', [1][2] which had already been undergoing ...
Cuman–Kipchak Confederation. Mixed results, mostly Kievan Rus' victories. 1065–1069 [14] Rebellion of Vseslav of Polotsk [14] Sieges of Pskov and Novgorod (1065–1067) [14] Battle on the Nemiga River (1067) [14] Kiev uprising of 1068 [14] Polish intervention, restoration of Iziaslav I of Kiev (1069) [14] Principality of Kiev.
A miniature from the Spassky Gospels, Yaroslavl, made in the 1220s. The culture of Kievan Rus' spans the cultural developments in Kievan Rus' from the 9th to 13th century of the Middle Ages. The Kievan monarchy came under the sphere of influence of the Byzantine Empire, one of the most advanced cultures of the time, and adopted Christianity ...
The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks was a medieval trade route that connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire. The route allowed merchants along its length to establish a direct prosperous trade with the Empire, and prompted some of them to settle in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle[b] (Church Slavonic: Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ, romanized: Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ lětŭ, [c] commonly transcribed Povest' vremennykh let (PVL), [a] lit. 'Tale of Bygone Years'), [6][2] is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110. It is ...
Extent of Kievan Rus', 1054–1132. Ruthenia [a] is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Kievan Rus'. [1] It is also used to refer to the East Slavic and Eastern Orthodox regions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, corresponding to the territories of modern Belarus, Ukraine, and some of ...
Rurikids. The Rurik dynasty, [a] also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, [1] was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the year 862. [2][3][4] The Rurikids were the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus' and its ...