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The Rus ', [a] also known as Russes, [2] [3] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. [4] The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
Kievan Rus', [a] [b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [c] [7] [8] was a state and later an amalgam of principalities [9] in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [10] The name was coined by Russian historians in the 19th century. Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [11] [12 ...
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The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*Ruotsi), 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 ...
In modern English historiography, common names for the ancient East Slavic state include Kievan Rus, (sometimes retaining the apostrophe in Rus', a transliteration of the soft sign, ь), or Kievan Ruthenia.[citation needed] The term Kievan Rus'was established by modern historians to distinguish the period from the 9th century to the beginning of the...
Southwest principalities
In the 13th–14th centuries, many of southwestern Rus' principalities were united under the power of the Kingdom of Rus' (Latin: Regnum Rusiae), historiographically better known as the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia. Roman the Great was variously named dux Rutenorum, princeps Ruthenorum or rex Ruthenorum by Polish chroniclers. Danylo of Galicia was crowned Rex Ruthenorum or "king of the Rus'" in 1253. Alternatively, Danylo and his brother Vasylko Romanovych were styled Princeps Galiciae, Rex Russ...
White, Black, Red
While gradually most of the territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus', Samogitia retained the name Rus', some of them got more color-specific names: 1. "White Rus" (Russia (Ruthenia) Alba, Belarus, Ruś Biała). This would eventually become the name of the country Belarus.[citation needed] 2. "Black Rus" (Russia (Ruthenia) Nigra, Chorna Rus, Ruś Czarna)[citation needed] 3. "Red Rus" (Russia (Ruthenia) Rubra, Chervona Rus, Ruś Czerwona)[citation needed] Although the name Ruthenia arose a...
Later usage
Later usage of the name "Ruthenia" became narrowed to Carpathian Ruthenia (Karpats'ka Rus'), the northeastern part of the Carpathian Mountains, in the Kingdom of Hungary where the local Slavs had Rusyn identity. Carpathian Ruthenia incorporated the cities of Mukachevo (Hungarian: Munkács), Uzhhorod (Hungarian: Ungvár) and Prešov (Pryashiv; Hungarian: Eperjes). Carpathian Rus' had been part of the Kingdom of Hungary since 907, and had been known as "Magna Rus'" but was also called "Karpato-Rus...
Originally, there was a metropolitan based in Kiev (Kyiv) calling himself "metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'", but in 1299, the Kievan metropolitan chair was moved to Vladimir by Metropolitan Maximos, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'. One line of metropolitans settled in Moscow in 1325 and continued titling themselves "of Kiev and all Rus'". Patri...
Dec 3, 2018 · Definition. Kievan Rus (862-1242) was a medieval political federation located in modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, and part of Russia (the latter named for the Rus, a Scandinavian people). The name Kievan Rus is a modern-day (19th century) designation but has the same meaning as 'land of the Rus,' which is how the region was known in the Middle Ages.
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- The Kievan Rus dynasty had Viking origins but quickly intermarried with the local Slavic population.
- The Kievan Rus are at the origin of modern-day Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. The Rurik Dynasty ruled for over 700 years from Rurik's founding in 86...
- The Kievan Rus are at the origin of both modern-day Russia and Ukraine. They are at the origin of the national history and identity of both countries.
- The Kievan Rus dynasty was most likely founded by the Norse leader Rurik (reigned 862-879).
The Russians ( Russian: русские, romanized : russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group indigenous to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history. Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, is the shared mother tongue of the Russians; Orthodox Christianity has been their majority religion since the formation ...
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