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Pages in category "Rus' people". This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes . Rus' people. Categories: East Slavs. Norsemen. Historical ethnic groups of Europe. Ruthenia.
The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking numerous cities including the largest such as Kiev (50,000 inhabitants) and Chernigov (30,000 inhabitants). The Mongol siege and sack of Kiev in 1240 is generally held to mark the end of Kievan Rus' as a distinct, singular polity.
The calling of the Varangians illustrated in the Radziwiłł Chronicle (15th century). The calling of the Varangians, calling of the (Varangian) princes or invitation to the Varangians (Russian: призвание варягов, romanized: prizvaniye varyagov; Ukrainian: покликання варягів, romanized: poklykannya varyahiv) is a legend about the origins of the Rus' people, the ...
Defeated by Kievan Rus'. Kievan Rus' (Kyivan Rus') c. 9th–13th century Grand principality: First confirmed Slav-dominated state in Eastern Europe consolidating several Slavic and Finno-Ugric tribes and Norse Varangians (Rus' people). Evolved into an amalgam of Rus' principalities (see also Council of Liubech), then disintegrated.
The proto-Slavic term Slav shares roots with Slavic terms for speech, word, and perhaps was used by early Slavic people themselves to denote other people, who spoke languages similar to theirs. The first written use of the name "Slavs" dates to the 6th century, when the Slavic tribes inhabited a large portion of Central and Eastern Europe .
Rusʹ Khaganate ( Russian: Русский каганат, Russkiy kaganat, [3] Ukrainian: Руський каганат, Ruśkyj kahanat [4] [5] ), or kaganate of Rus [b] is a name applied by some modern historians to a hypothetical polity suggested to have existed during a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe between c ...
History of the Turkic peoples pre–14th century. The Pechenegs ( / ˈpɛtʃənɛɡ /) or Patzinaks [note 1] were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia who spoke the Pecheneg language. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Pechenegs controlled much of the steppes of southeast Europe and the Crimean Peninsula.
