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invasion was facilitated by the breakup of Kievan Rus' in the twelfth ... As it was undergoing fragmentation, Kievan Rus' faced the unexpected ...

Tale of Bygone Years), is a history of the Kievan Rus' from around 850 ... three Varangian brothers, the founding of Kievan Rus', the murder of ...

I of Kiev, Vladmir consolidated the Kievan Rus' from the Ukraine ... Yaropolk and was proclaimed konung (king) of all Kievan Rus. ...

Vladimir, was a principality in post-Kievan Rus' in the late twelfth ... Galicia-Volhynia period, like the earlier Kievan Rus', was a time of ...

under his rule. During his lengthy reign, Kievan Rus' reached a zenith ... on the news that Vladimir bequeathed the Kievan throne to his younger son ...

972) was the warrior prince (or konung) of Kievan Rus'. The son of Igor ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...

===Princely state within Kievan Rus'=== captured Kiev and founded the state of Kievan Rus. The city soon became ...

Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of the Blue Horde. Batu was a son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan. His ...

. A predecessor to the Rurik Dynasty and Kievan Rus', the Rus' ... and its successor states would include Kievan Rus' and later states ...

Batu Khan he extended Mongol rule into Kievan Rus', the Crimea, part ... northern and southern campaigns against Kievan Rus'. He also commanded ...

Kiev and touched with the staff of his lance the Kievan golden throne. Like a fierce beast he leapt away from them at midnight, out of the white town ...

Ivan Vasilievich Kireevsky (April 3, 1806 – June 23, 1856) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who, together with Aleksey Khomyakov ...

tenth to twelfth centuries a capital of Kievan Rus', a medieval East ... the center of the first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus. The introduction of ...

refused to surrender; in the invasion of Kievan Rus', almost all major ... and eastern Persia, then raiding into Kievan Rus' (a predecessor ...

Bulgaria and against the successor states to Kievan Rus, bringing their ancient prosperity to an end. Batu's Blue Horde continued west, raiding ...

* Kievan period and feudal breakup * The Tatar yoke and the Grand Duchy ... political unification of this region into Kievan Rus' in about 880, from ...

to incite the Magyars, the Pechenegs and Kievan Rus' to attack Bulgaria from the north-east, as they had done in the war of 894–896. Simeon ...

In the eighth and ninth centuries colonization also began from Kievan Rus'. Slavs from Kievan Rus' brought Christianity to the upper ...

light on the history of Khazaria and Kievan Rus. ==See also== *Dead Sea Scrolls *Solomon Schechter == References == * Cohen, Mark R. The Voice ...

a polity—commonly referred to as the Kievan Rus'—in exchange for ... Upon the death of Kievan Rus' ruler, Prince Yaroslav the Wise ...

The use and making of icons entered Kievan Rus' following its conversion to Orthodox Christianity from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire ...

Slavic civilization forming the state of Kievan Rus. After a brief period ... time by European chroniclers in 839 C.E. Kievan Rus' comprised several ...

of 1677-1678. Synopsis covers the history of Kievan Rus, the Mongol invasion of Rus, the struggle of the Ukrainian people against the Crimean Tatars ...

to help Boleslaw I in his campaign against the Kievan Rus'. In 1018, Stephen lead his armies against Bulgaria, in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor ...

tales. (Old Russian was the literary language of Kievan Rus' between the tenth and fourteenth century.) In 1991, Walt Disney Feature Animation ...

west and the vast Ruthenian territories of former Kievan Rus', comprising lands of modern Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of western Russia.Daniel Z ...

Andrew, who had been living in exile in the Kievan Rus' and had been baptized there, seized the power and he was crowned; thus, a member of a collateral ...

III of Kiev, along with about 80,000 Kievan Rus'. Subutai sent emissaries ... were allowed to use any means to defeat Kievan Rus. The Mongol military ...

The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but also in Poland the Baltic states and several other countries. Russian Tatars ...

Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or Latvijas Republika), is a country ...

According to the earliest chronicle of Kievan Rus', a Varangian named ... Thus, the first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus', emerged in the ...

The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction of Russian principalities, such as Kiev and Vladimir, under the leadership ...

and later spread to the Eastern Slav lands of Kievan Rus'. Cyrillic eventually spread throughout most of the Slavic world to become the standard ...

the Yuan Dynasty, and his westward invasion of Kievan Rus' further linked Europe and Asia by reestablishing the Silk Road. Before the Mongol ...

Bulgaria was crushed by an assault of the Kievan Rus in 969. The Byzantines ... Cyrillic and the Glagolithic alphabet to Kievan Rus, Serbia and Croatia. ...

the Byzantine Empire in the southwest, Kievan Rus' in the northwest, Volga Bulgaria in the north, and Azerbaijan in the southeast. This ...

Ages. Part of the area came under the rule of Kievan Rus between the tenth and twelfth centuries and later passed to the Galician princes. ...