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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 ...
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.
They ultimately gave their name to Russia and Belarus, and they are relevant to the national histories of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Because of this importance, there is a set of alternative so-called " anti-Normanist " views that are largely confined to a minor group of Eastern European scholars.
The culture of Kievan Rus' spans the cultural developments in Kievan Rus' from the 9th to 13th century of the Middle Ages. The Kievan monarchy came under the sphere of influence of the Byzantine Empire , one of the most advanced cultures of the time, and adopted Christianity during the Christianization of Kievan Rus' .
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
The total water use per year is about 17,000 to 23,000 acre-feet (21,000,000 to 28,000,000 m 3). Even further downstream, water users in Sonoma County use between 50,000 and 80,000 acre-feet (62,000,000 and 99,000,000 m 3) per year. These users depend both on Potter Valley Project water and natural flows in the Russian River basin managed by ...