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- The Rus ' were a group of Norsemen from Sweden who settled in modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and northwestern Russia. Their name comes from the word Ruotsi, an Old Norse term meaning "the men who row".
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Rus' people. The Rus ' were a group of Norsemen from Sweden who settled in modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and northwestern Russia. Their name comes from the word Ruotsi, an Old Norse term meaning "the men who row". The Rus' were responsible for the foundation of the Kievan Rus' state.
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. 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.
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.
Russia (Russian: Россия, romanized: Rossiya, [rɐˈsʲijə]), or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It has land from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait. It is the largest country in the world, followed by Canada, the United States, and China. Russia's population is about 146.7
The term Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Rus', Ρωσσία Rossía—related to both Modern Greek: Ρως, romanized: Ros, lit. 'Rus'', and Ρωσία. Originally, the name Rus' referred to the people, regions, and medieval principalities within the territory of the Kievan Rus'.
The history of Russia begins with the East Slavs, Turkic, and the Finno-Ugric peoples. [1] [2] [3] [4] Parts of Southern Russia around the Black Sea were settled by Greeks and Romans until about the 3rd century.
