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The oldest evidence of humans on the territory of Moscow dates from the Neolithic Schukinskaya site on the Moscow River.Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidence was discovered to be a burial ground of the Fatyanovskaya culture, as well as the site of an Iron Age settlement of the Dyakovo culture, on the territory of the Kremlin, Sparrow Hills, Setun River and Kuntsevskiy forest ...
The city's name is thought to be derived from the Moskva River. [24] [25] Theories of the origin of the name of the river have been proposed.The most linguistically well-grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *mŭzg-/muzg- from the Proto-Indo-European * meu - "wet", [25] [26] [27] so the name Moskva might signify a river at a wetland or marsh. [24]
The English names Moscow and Muscovy, for the city, the principality, and the river, are derived from post-classical Latin Moscovia, Muscovia, and ultimately from the Old Russian fully vocalized accusative form Московь, Moskov'. [26] [27] Moscow is first mentioned under the year 1147 in the locative case (na Moskvě). [26]
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...
Moscow Oblast and Moscow Circus School established. Kauchuk Factory Club built. 1930 – Moscow State Institute for History and Archives and Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys established. 1934 – Museum of Architecture founded. 1935 15 May: Moscow Metro begins operating. Hotel Moskva in business. 1936 Moscow Trials begin in the House of the ...
Another Medieval Latin name for Rus' was Ruthenia. [25] In Russian, the current name of the country, Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Byzantine Greek name for Rus', Ρωσία (Rosía). [26] A new form of the name Rus ', Росия (Rosiya), was borrowed from the Greek term and first attested in 1387.
While the oldest endonyms of the Grand Duchy of Moscow used in its documents were "Rus'" (Русь) and the "Russian land" (Русская земля, Russkaya zemlya), [12] a new form of its name in Russian became common by the 15th century. [13] [14] [15] The vernacular Rus ' was transformed into Rus(s)iya or Ros(s)iya (based on the Greek ...