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  2. Kievan Rus' - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. History of Kyiv - Wikipedia

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    Kievan Rus' (c. 880–1240 [1] [2]) Principality of Kiev 1132–1471 ∟ part of the Kievan Rus' from 1132 to 1240 ∟ part of the Golden Horde from the 1240s to 1271 ∟ part of the Kingdom of Rus' from 1271 to 1301 [citation needed] ∟ part of the Golden Horde from 1301 to 1362 ∟ part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1362 to 1471

  4. Principality of Volhynia - Wikipedia

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    The Principality of Volhynia (Ukrainian: Волинське князівство) was a western Kievan Rus' principality founded by the Rurikid prince Vsevolod in 987 centered in the region of Volhynia, straddling the borders of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.

  5. History of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    Kievan Rus' started to disintegrate in High Middle Ages, with Kyivan monarchs competing and fighting over the throne in the core Rus' land, while experiencing Turkic raids from Southern Ukraine. [7] In 13th century, Kievan Rus' was destroyed by the Mongol invasion , leaving its core in Dnieper Ukraine absolutely devastated, but the Kingdom of ...

  6. Principality of Kiev - Wikipedia

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    The principality was formed during the process of political fragmentation of the Kievan Rus' in the early 12th century. As a result of that process, the effective rule of the grand princes of Kiev was gradually reduced to central regions of Kievan Rus' around its capital city Kiev, thus forming a reduced princely domain, known as the inner ...

  7. History of Crimea - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-10th century, the eastern area of Crimea was conquered by Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev and became part of the Kievan Rus' principality of Tmutarakan. The peninsula was wrested from the Byzantines by the Kievan Rus' in the 10th century; a major Byzantine outpost, Chersonesus, was taken in 988 CE.

  8. Tmutarakan - Wikipedia

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    The city of Tmutarakan (Samkarsh) and its international relations during Khazar and Rus times. Although the exact date and circumstances of Tmutarakan's takeover by Kievan Rus are uncertain, the Hypatian Codex mentions Tmutarakan as one of the towns that Vladimir the Great gave to his sons, which implies that Rus control over the city was established in the late 10th century and certainly ...

  9. Principality of Pereyaslavl - Wikipedia

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    The Primary Chronicle dates the foundation of the city of Pereyaslavl' to 992; the archaeological evidence suggests it was founded not long after this date. [2] In its early days Pereyaslavl' was one of the important cities in Kievan Rus' behind the Principality of Chernigov and Kiev.