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The final Rus'–Byzantine War was, in essence, an unsuccessful naval raid against Constantinople instigated by Yaroslav the Wise and led by his eldest son, Vladimir of Novgorod, in 1043. The reasons for the war are disputed, as is its course.
Rus'–Byzantine War (1024) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Byzantine victory: 1043 Rus'–Byzantine War (1043) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Byzantine victory: 1044-1045 Crimean campaign of Yaroslav the Wise: Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Rus' victory. Rus' occupies Chersonesos, which forces Byzantium to make concessions [5] 1116-1123 Rus ...
"Rus' land" from the Primary Chronicle, a copy of the Laurentian Codex. During its existence, Kievan Rus' was known as the "Rus' land" (Old East Slavic: ро́усьскаѧ землѧ́, romanized: rusĭskaę zemlę, from the ethnonym Роусь, Rusĭ; Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς, romanized: Rhos; Arabic: الروس, romanized: ar-Rūs), in Greek as Ῥωσία, Rhosia, in Old French as Russie ...
Rus'–Byzantine War (1024) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Defeat 1030 Yaroslav the Wise's campaign against the Chud Kievan Rus' Chud: Victory Estonian tribes start paying tribute to Kievan Rus' 1030–1031 Yaroslav the Wise's campaign for the Cherven Cities Kievan Rus' Duchy of Poland: Victory c. 1038–1047 Miecław's Rebellion: Duchy of Poland
The principal achievement of Byzantine theology was the ecclesiastic writings of the holy fathers. The high cultural level of Greek teachers posed difficult tasks for Kievan Rus’. Nevertheless, art of the Rus’ principalities of the tenth century differed from Byzantine prototypes of the same period. The peculiarities of the first Rus' works ...
The chronicle describes these groups as pagan, and the "Greeks" (that is Byzantines) referred to these tribes as "Great Scythia". We are told that, at first, Byzantine envoys attempted to poison Oleg before he could approach Constantinople. The Rus' leader, renowned for his oracular powers, refused to drink from the poisoned cup.
The siege of Constantinople in 860 was the only major military expedition of the Rus' people (Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς) recorded in Byzantine and western European sources. The casus belli was the construction of the fortress Sarkel by Byzantine engineers, restricting the Rus' trade route along the Don River in favour of the Khazars.
Topographical map of Constantinople during the Byzantine period, corresponding to the modern-day Fatih district of Istanbul. The city was known as Byzantium under Roman Empire . Constantinople (today part of Istanbul , Turkey ) was built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea .