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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...
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    Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told other Christian patriarchs that the Rus' people were converting enthusiastically, but his efforts seem to have entailed...
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    Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus', was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the...
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  • up Rus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rus or RUS may refer to: East Slavic historical peoples (Русь). See Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia Rus' people...
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    Lech, Czech and Rus (Czech pronunciation: [lɛx tʃɛx rus], Polish pronunciation: [lɛx t͡ʂɛx rus]) refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who...
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  • The word Rus' referred initially to a group of Scandinavian Vikings, also known as Varangians, who founded the medieval state of Kievan Rus' in Eastern...
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  • Rusʹ Khaganate (Russian: Русский каганат, Russkiy kaganat, Ukrainian: Руський каганат, Ruśkyj kahanat), or kaganate of Rus is a name applied by some modern...
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    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)...
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    Little Russia (redirect from Mala Rus')
    Russia, Malorussia, Little Rus' (Russian: Малая Русь, romanized: Malaya Rus; Ukrainian: Мала Русь, romanized: Mala Rus), Rus' Minor[citation needed] (from...
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    the Russian Empire. The Moscow principality drew people and wealth to the northeastern part of Kievan Rus'; established trade links to the Baltic Sea, White...
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    Daniela L. Rus is a Romanian-American computer scientist. She serves as director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)...
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    Varangians (redirect from Varangian Rus)
    Ukraine from the 8th and 9th centuries, and established the state of Kievan Rus' as well as the principalities of Polotsk and Turov. They also formed the...
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  • Carpathian Rus/Ruthenia (Czech and Slovak: Karpatská Rus) and, occasionally, Hungarian Rus/Ruthenia (Czech: Uherská Rus; Slovak: Uhorská Rus).[citation...
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    Kievan Rus'. The lands of Rus' Khaganate and Kievan Rus' were important trade routes and connected Scandinavia, Byzantine Empire, Rus' people and Volga...
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    Vladimir-Suzdal (redirect from Vladimir Rus)
    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...
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    Russians (redirect from People of Russia)
    ancestry is based in Kievan Rus'. The Russian word for the Russians is derived from the people of Rus' and the territory of Rus'. Russians share many historical...
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    large group of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history. The Slavs adapted the toponym Little or Lesser Rus from the Greek...
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    and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan Rus', which they claim as their cultural ancestor. Today Belarusians, Russians...
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    Ruthenians (redirect from Ruthenian people)
    Eastern Slavs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, as an exonym for people of the former Kievan Rus', thus including ancestors of the modern Belarusians, Rusyns...
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    Swedes (tribe) (redirect from Swea (people))
    the Norsemen that travelled eastwards (see Rus' people). The scholarly consensus is that the Rus' people originated in what is currently coastal eastern...
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    Constantinople in 860 was the only major military expedition of the Rus' people (Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς) recorded in Byzantine and Western European sources...
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    Ruthenia (redirect from Rus' (region))
    used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Kievan Rus'. It is used to refer to Rus' region, a triangular area which mainly corresponds to the...
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    of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia or Kingdom of Rus/Russia,[better source needed] was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which...
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  • expansion include the Normans, the Norse–Gaels and the Rus' people. The North Germanic peoples of the Viking Age went by various names among the cultures...
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    Vikings (redirect from Viking people)
    The Normans, Norse-Gaels, Rus' people, Faroese, and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. At one point, a group of Rus Vikings went so far south...
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    area of Polotsk. The name Rus' itself is derived from the Rus' people which gave the name to the territories of Kievan Rus'. The chronicles of Jan of...
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    the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese, and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. The Vikings...
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    Ольга; Old Norse: Helga; c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took...
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  • According to the Primary Chronicle, the fleet of Rus' under Oleg of Kiev carried out a military strike against Byzantium in 907, landing a huge army landed...
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  • Belaya Rus (Belarusian: Белая Русь, romanized: Bělaja Ruś, lit. 'White Rus'') is a Belarusian political party which was initially founded as a public...
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