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"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 ...
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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.
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 ...
Belz is situated in a fertile plain which tribes of Indo-European origin settled in ancient times: Celtic Lugii, [3] [4] next (2nd-5th century) Germanic Goths, [5] [6] slavized Sarmatians (White Croats), [7] and at last Slavic Dulebes [8] (later Buzhans), who eventually become part of the Kievan Rus' in 907, when Dulebs took part in Oleg's ...
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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 ...
During the reign of Vladimir the Great, Kievan Rus' expanded significantly, notably through the conquest and annexation of Red Ruthenia, Transcarpathia, and Korsun. These territorial gains made Kievan Rus' the largest state in Europe at the time, covering over 800,000 square kilometers and boasting a population of more than 5 million. The socio ...