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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.
- 622,445 (2016), (Russian ancestry, excluding Russian Germans)
- 938,500 (2011), (including Russian Jews)
- 40,000 (2019)
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.
Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanized country ...
History of Russia. 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. Huns and Turkic tribes invaded the regions around the Black Sea until the 10th century.
Originally, the name Rus ' ( Cyrillic: Русь) referred to the people, [1] regions, and medieval principalities (9th to 12th centuries) within the territory of the Kievan Rus'. Today its territory is distributed among Belarus, Ukraine, Eastern Poland, and the European section of Russia.
