Rusʹ Khaganate (Russian: Русский каганат, Russkiy kaganat, Ukrainian: Руський каганат, Ruśkyj kahanat), or kaganate of Rus is a name applied by some modern...

that, in response to the initial request of the Rus', Photius (and Michael III) sent to the Rus' Khaganate a simple bishop. The pagans felt slighted at the...

during which the Rus troops led by Svyatoslav Igorevich defeated the neighboring Vyatichi tribe, and also put an end to the Khazar Khaganate. Having gathered...

hypothetical polity known as the Rus' Khaganate. Rurik's relative Oleg conquered Kiev in 882 and established the state of Kievan Rus', which was later ruled by...

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A khanate or khaganate is a type of historic polity ruled by a khan, khagan, khatun, or khanum. Khanates were typically nomadic Turkic, Mongol and Tatar...

the national river of Russia. The hypothetical old Russian state, the Rus' Khaganate, arose along the Volga c. 830 AD. Historically, the river served as...

(Qabars) or Khavars were Khazar rebels who joined Magyar tribes and the Rus' Khaganate confederations in the 9th century CE. The Byzantine Emperor Constantine...

East Slavic state, centered in Kiev Rus' Khaganate, a ninth-century Eastern European state Ruthenia Vladimirian Rus', or Vladimir-Suzdal, an East Slavic...

important role in the early ethnogenesis of the Rus' people, and in the formation of the Rus' Khaganate. The Varangians (Varyags, in Old East Slavic) are...

part of Kievan Rus'. The lands of Rus' Khaganate and Kievan Rus' were important trade routes and connected Scandinavia, Byzantine Empire, Rus' people and...

conflict, disruption of trade, and instability within the Khazar Khaganate. The Rus' and Slavs had earlier allied with the Khazars against Arab raids...

the 15th century. The vernacular Rus' was transformed into Rus(s)iya or Ros(s)iya (based on the Greek name for Rus'). In the 1480s, Russian state scribes...

cultural symbiosis" became prevalent following the establishment of the Rus' state. The Novgorodians were the first to reach the regions between the...

The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking numerous cities including the largest: Kiev (50,000 inhabitants)...

fighting for the expansion of the territory of Kievan Rus'. Following the disintegration of Kievan Rus', the emergence of the Principality of Moscow and then...

"Rus'" (Русь) and the "Russian land" (Русская земля, Russkaya zemlya). A new form of the name became common by the 15th century, the vernacular Rus' was...

The Western Turkic Khaganate (Chinese: 西突厥; pinyin: Xī Tūjué) or Onoq Khaganate (Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰣:𐰸:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, romanized: On oq budun, lit. 'Ten arrow...

invasion of Europe. In 1223, Genghis Khan defeated the Cumans and their Rus' allies at the Battle of Kalka (in modern Ukraine), and the final blow came...

people. The Povolzhye played an important part of the emergence of the Rus' Khaganate. The Volga River was used mainly by traders from the Oriental and Viking...

Volodimeriae), also as Suzdalia or Vladimir-Suzdalian Rus', was one of the major principalities emerging from Kievan Rus' in the late 12th century, centered in Vladimir-on-Klyazma...

mid-9th century. Under Varangian rule, the city became a capital of Kievan Rus', the first East Slavic state. Completely destroyed during the Mongol invasions...

Ukrainians (Ruthenians) and Romanians (Moldavians), it became part of the Kievan Rus' and Pechenegs' territory early on during the 10th century and an integral...

Czechoslovak Republic, created in December 1938 and renamed from Subcarpathian Rus', whose full administrative and political autonomy had been confirmed by...

Ṣ(a)lāwiya) (tentatively identified with the land of Ilmen Slavs, see Rus' Khaganate) and Arthaniya (Arabic: ارثانية ’Arṯāniya) (not properly explained)...

King of Ruthenia, King of Rus', King of Galicia and Lodomeria, Lord and Heir of Ruthenian Lands (Latin: Rex Rusiae, Rex Ruthenorum, Rex Galiciae et Lodomeriae...

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called the Black Klobuks, who were allies of the Rurik dynasty of the Rus' Khaganate; Golden however considers the Kaepichi to be descendants of the Mongolic...

Novgorodian Rus' or Novgorod Republic Kingdom of Russia (1199–1349), centered in Lviv Kievan Rus' (882–1240), centered in Kyiv Rus' Khaganate, hypothetical...

of Kievan Rus', began an active expansionist military campaign. His most notable achievement was the decisive defeat of the Khazar Khaganate, a once-dominant...