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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 ...
This is a list of wars involving Kievan Rus' (c. 9th century–1240). [a] These wars involved Kievan Rus' (also known as Kyivan Rus' [5]) as a whole, or some of its principalities [b] up to 1240. [c] Victory of Kievan Rus' (and allies) Defeat of Kievan Rus' (and allies) Another result*
The Scandinavian influence in Kievan Rus ' was most important during the late 9th c. and during the 10th c. In 976, Vladimir the Great (Valdamarr gamli [109]) fled from his brother Yaropolk to Sweden, ruled by Erik the Victorious, where he gathered an invasion force that he used to conquer Kievan Rus '.
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 second large-scale campaign is dated to 943, when Igor was the prince of Kievan Rus', according to the Primary Chronicle. [b] During the 943 expedition, the Rus' rowed up the Kura River, deep into the Caucasus, defeated the forces of Marzuban bin Muhammad, [11] and captured Bardha'a, the capital of Arran.
Cnut's invasion of Norway (1028–1029) Kingdom of Norway: North Sea Empire Norwegian chieftains Danish and Norwegian chieftain victory. Norway conquered by King Cnut; King Olaf II was driven into exile to Kievan Rus; Battle of Stiklestad (1030) Olaf II: Peasant Army Peasant victory. Death of Olaf II; Tryggvi the Pretender's invasion of Norway ...
Many Rus' armies were defeated; Grand Prince Yuri was killed on the Sit River (March 4, 1238). Major cities such as Vladimir, Torzhok, and Kozelsk were captured. Afterward, the Mongols turned their attention to the steppe, crushing the Kipchaks and the Alans, and sacking Crimea. Batu appeared in Kievan Rus' in 1239, sacking Pereyaslavl and ...
During the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' ( 1223, 1237–1241), many cities including Kiev were sacked, and the state definitively split into many independent Rus' principalities, some of which were completely destroyed. Remaining petty states were under growing pressure from Tatars, Sweden and Lithuania.