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8 hours ago · The Rus ', [a] also known as Russes, [1] [2] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. [3] 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.
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Olga (Church Slavonic: Ольга; Old Norse: Helga; c. 890–925 –...
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The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the...
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Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus ' was a state and...
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1 day ago · A stained glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180. It depicts the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative. In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted approximately from 500 AD to 1500, although some prefer other start and end dates. The Middle Ages is the second of the three traditional divisions of Western ...
1 day ago · Poland, [c] officially the Republic of Poland, [d] is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative voivodeship provinces, covering an area of 312,696 km 2 (120,733 sq mi). [14] Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union.
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1 day ago · In the late 19th and early 20th century Romanian linguist Hasdeu speculated the origin of Albanians from the free Dacians (i.e., according to him, the Costoboci, the Carpi and the Bessi ), after their alleged migration southwards from outside the Danubian or Carpathian limes during Roman Imperial times.
8 hours ago · Chișinău ( / ˌkɪʃɪˈnaʊ / KISH-in-OW, US also / ˌkiːʃiːˈnaʊ / kee-shee-NOW; Romanian: [kiʃiˈnəw] ⓘ ), formerly known as Kishinev, [a] is the capital and largest city of Moldova. [8] The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc, a tributary of the ...
- 123 km² (47 sq mi)
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8 hours ago · Religiō. In classic antiquity, religiō broadly meant conscientiousness, sense of right, moral obligation, or duty to anything. [20] In the ancient and medieval world, the etymological Latin root religiō was understood as an individual virtue of worship in mundane contexts; never as doctrine, practice, or actual source of knowledge.
8 hours ago · e. England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic immigration ...