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  • The use and making of icons entered Kievan Rus' following its conversion to Orthodox Christianity from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire ...
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  • Slavic civilization forming the state of Kievan Rus. After a brief period ... time by European chroniclers in 839 C.E. Kievan Rus' comprised several ...
    72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
  • 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 ...
    22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
  • 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 ...
    19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
  • tales. (Old Russian was the literary language of Kievan Rus' between the tenth and fourteenth century.) In 1991, Walt Disney Feature Animation ...
    18 KB (2,992 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
  • west and the vast Ruthenian territories of former Kievan Rus', comprising lands of modern Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of western Russia.Daniel Z ...
    51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but also in Poland the Baltic states and several other countries. Russian Tatars ...
    38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
  • Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or Latvijas Republika), is a country ...
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  • According to the earliest chronicle of Kievan Rus', a Varangian named ... Thus, the first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus', emerged in the ...
    137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
  • The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction of Russian principalities, such as Kiev and Vladimir, under the leadership ...
    27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
  • and later spread to the Eastern Slav lands of Kievan Rus'. Cyrillic eventually spread throughout most of the Slavic world to become the standard ...
    33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
  • the Yuan Dynasty, and his westward invasion of Kievan Rus' further linked Europe and Asia by reestablishing the Silk Road. Before the Mongol ...
    33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
  • 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. ...
    61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
  • the Byzantine Empire in the southwest, Kievan Rus' in the northwest, Volga Bulgaria in the north, and Azerbaijan in the southeast. This ...
    42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
  • 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. ...
    57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022

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