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One of the two oldest survived buildings of the Kievan Rus. [1] The exterior was considerably modified in the 17th and 18th centuries. Category: 2. The Golden Gate, Kyiv: Kyiv 1037 By 1982, the gate was a ruin, and, with the exception of the lowest parts of the walls, it was reconstructed in 1982. Category: 3.
"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 ...
The architecture of Kievan Rus' comes from the medieval state of Kievan Rus' which incorporated parts of what is now modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and was centered on Kiev and Novgorod. Its architecture is the earliest period of Russian and Ukrainian architecture, using the foundations of Byzantine culture but with great use of ...
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English: Map of the Kievan Rus in 1237. The names of tribes and peoples are in bold and yellow, the names of countries outside the Kievan Rus are in bold and black. The names of principalities of the Kievan Rus are in blue; if a principality bears a name which comes directly from the name of its capital (e.g. the Principality of Kiev), the complete name of the principalty is not on the map and ...
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 market at Kaffa, with its cheap water transport to areas of demand, increased the value of captives. Some were ransomed back to Russia and some were sold east as far as Bukhara. By one estimate [ 6 ] some 150,000 to 200,000 captives were taken from Russia in 1600–1650, but of course there are no exact figures.
At a depth of 1,700 metres (5,600 ft), Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and contains about 20% of world's unfrozen fresh water. It is also the oldest lake in the world, with an age of 25 million years. Due to its characteristics, it is home to a unique combination of freshwater flora and fauna, with many endemic species. [15]