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	Kyivan Rus’
		Rus’ ruler to convert to Christianity and to establish direct ties with central and western-European rulers.
		Rus’ and became involved in the internecine wars, serving as allies of one branch of the dynasty or another.
		Rus’ vulnerable to foreign attacks, and the invasion of the
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/K/Y/KyivanRushDA.htm (1868 words)

	Kyivan Rus' Period
		Kyivan Rus was the first Eastern Slavic State.
		Finally, Yaroslav the Wise became the ruler of Kyivan Rus.
		Eventually, in 1240 the Mongols sacked Kyiv, ending the Kyivan Rus period.
	www.angelfire.com /punk5/lnw118/Kyivan.html (273 words)

	Kyivan Rus
		Kyivan Rus rule ended when Kyiv fell down in the hand of the Mongols in 1240.
		Volodymyr was Born in 956 to Sviatoslav the Conqueror.
		Kyivan Rus did not know the Mongols before or even heard about them until some nomads from the east came to the East Slavic nations as refugees.
	www.personal.psu.edu /faa124/UKR_100/Kyivan_Rus.htm (725 words)

	History and Information on Ukraine - SECTION 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Rus' eventually expanded to include the lands of present-day Ukraine as well as some territory of modern Russia, Belarus and the Baltic states.
		She was the first Kyivan ruler to accept Christianity (from Byzantium) and influenced her grandson to officially embrace Christianity for the whole state.
		With the weakening of the Kyivan state, rivalries and even hostilities developed among the various principalities of Kyivan Rus'.
	members.aol.com /ukiramr6/old/ukr02.htm (1090 words)

	Kievan Rus' - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Image:Kievan Rus en.jpg According to the Primary Chronicle, the earliest chronicle of Kievan Rus′, a Varangian (Viking) named Rurik first established himself in Novgorod, located in modern Russia (he was selected as common ruler by several Slavic and Finnic tribes) in about 860 before moving south and extending his authority to Kiev.
		Early in the 14th century, the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople granted the rulers of Galicia-Volhynia a metropolitan to compensate for the move of the Kievan metropolitan to Vladimir.
		Kievan Rus', although as all of Eastern Europe relatively sparsly populated compared to the Western Europe[1], was not only the largest contemporary European state in terms of area but also one of the most culturally advanced.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=Kyivan_Rus (2935 words)

	A Military History of Belarusian Lands Up to the End of Twelfth Century A
		Rus’ did not create an epic of “Heimskringla” scale, but the most significant events were registered on the pages of early Ruthenian chronicles.
		Both the Duchy of Połack and Kyivan Rus’ disintegrated into a number of statelets when the dukes of the ruling dynasties had established their hereditary rights on certain lands.
		The terms "Rus'", "Kyivan Rus'", "Ruthenia" and "Ruthenian" as opposed to "Russia" and "Russian" are used to distinguish between the early mediaeval state with the centres in Kyiv and Novgorod and the independent duchies it disintegrated into on one hand, and the later state with the centre in Moscow on the other.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/novikou.htm (10850 words)

	Who's Who Among Eastern Orthodox
		Representatives from Rus' took part in the Western councils in Lyon (1245) and Constance (1418) and the Union of Florence (1439) was positively received in Ukrainian and Belarusian lands.
		The episcopate of the Kyivan metropolia at the end of the 16th Century, however, had a very different orientation; it accepted the decision of its synod to pass under the jurisdiction of the See of Rome, provided that its traditional Eastern rite would be preserved and its own ecclesial and ethnic-cultural existence would be guaranteed.
		Not all the hierarchs and faithful of the Kyivan Metropolia supported this, as some of them were dissatisfied with the Roman vision of union and insisted on maintaining canonical dependence on the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /who's_who_among_eastern__orthodox.htm (6256 words)

	Kievan Rus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Varangians were also known as Rus or Rhos; it is possible that this name was early extended to the Slavs of the Kievan state, which became known as Kievan Rus.
		The reign (1019–54) of Vladimir’s son, Yaroslav the Wise, represented the political and cultural apex of Kievan Rus.
		Ukrainian scholars consider Kievan Rus to be central to the history of the Ukraine.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ki/KievanRu.html (468 words)

	Kievan Rus' at AllExperts
		The annals of RusÂ¹ state that when Vladimir had decided to accept a new faith instead of the traditional idol-worship (paganism) of the Slavs, he sent out some of his most valued advisors and warriors as emissaries to different parts of Europe.
		Kievan Rusâ² was not able to maintain its position as a powerful and prosperous state, in part because of the amalgamation of disparate lands under the control of a ruling clan.
		Kievan Rus', although as all of Eastern Europe relatively sparsly populated compared to the Western Europe[1], was not only the largest contemporary European state in terms of area but also one of the most culturally advanced.
	en.allexperts.com /e/k/ki/kievan_rus'.htm (2909 words)

	History
		Kyivan Rus lasted from 900 A.D. to 1240 A.D., extending from the Baltics to the Black Sea, from the Volga to the Tisza rivers.
		The society of Kyivan Rus was highly sophisticated for its time, the economy flourished, and foreign relations with the rest of Europe developed extensively.
		Internal strife amongst the princes and nomadic invasions from the east led to the decline of Kyivan Rus.
	www.usukraine.org /cpp/history.htm (2232 words)

	Kyiv - Ukraine
		The Kyivan state began as a narrow strip along the rivers from Staraia Ladoga to the rapids on the Dnieper south of Kyiv.
		During the 11th century the Kyivan state expanded west to the Polish and Hungarian borders, east to the upper Volga River, south to the steppe frontier below the Vorskla River, and north to Beloozero and the Sukhona River.
		The chief danger to Kyivan Rus developed on the southern frontier where the Turkic nomad Pechenegs overthrew the Khazars and occupied the steppe region.
	www.xenophon-mil.org /ukraine/kiev/kiev2.htm (2876 words)

	Government portal :: Kyivan Rus
		He was invited by the Kyivan boyards, avoiding offense of the provision of Lyubets’ky congress.
		The first attack of polovtsi on Rus dates back from the 60s of the XI century: in 1061 they invaded Pereyaslavs’ka land, defeating the prince Vsevolod Yaroslavych, and in 1068 Vsevolod and his brothers came off second-best by the river of Al’t.
		Kyivan Rus was taken up by conquerors, its lands got under dependence and laid under severe tribute.
	www.kmu.gov.ua /control/en/publish/article?art_id=2629325&cat_id=32672 (3818 words)

	Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine - Publications
		He became the ruler of Kyiv or Old Rus, the first state of Old Slavs, which soon turned into one of the greatest countries of Medieval Europe and which played an important part in political life on the continent.
		When he proclaimed Kyiv to be the political center of Rus, Prince Oleg (as well as his successors) were greatly concerned about the problem of consolidation of the nearest tribal principalities around Kyiv - the force of central state institutions being applied it its territory.
		The period of feudal disintegration on the Old Rus lands not only set a mark on their political, socio-economic and cultural development, but also introduced certain innovations to geographical definitions of the state.
	www.mfa.gov.ua /mfa/en/publication/content/342.htm (1007 words)

	Brief history of Ukraine cities, history, Kiev, Kyiv, dining, going out, clubs, cinemas, theatres, restaurants, ...
		The Rus settlers of Kyiv built their first citadel at the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 6th centuries on the steep right bank of the Dnipro River to protect themselves from the marauding nomadic tribes of the region.
		Within a few centuries, the Rus had evolved into three separate and distinct cultures: the Baltic Rus in the north, the Rus proper in the midlands around what later became Moscovy, and the Kyivan Rus in the south.
		By the end of the 9th century, the Kyivan Rus princes had united the scattered Slavic tribes, with Kyiv as the political center of the Eastern Slavs.
	www.eastwesttour.com /html/globals/ukraine/ukr_history.htm (2756 words)

	Hosking's: Russia - People and Empire
		Contrast this with Ukraine, the seat of ancient Kyivan Rus, which somehow managed to re-establish its nationhood after the terrible destruction and genocide of the Mongol invasions and then to maintain its national identity through three centuries of occupation, partition, exploitation and abuse.
		The first derives from Rus', the word customarily employed to denote the Kievan state and the Muscovite one in its early years.
		Rus' is humble, homely, sacred and definitely feminine (the poet Alexander Blok called her 'my mother'); Rossiia grandiose, cosmopolitan, secular and pace grammarians, masculine.
	members.aol.com /strutinst/hosking.html (3465 words)

	The Origins of the Slavic Nations - Cambridge University Press
		The competing view, advanced by imperial Russian historians and shared by some authors in present-day Russia, claims Kyivan Rus′ history for one indivisible Russian nation, of which Ukrainians and Belarusians are considered mere subgroups, distinguished not by separate cultures and languages but by variants of Russian culture and dialects of the Russian language.
		I switch from “Rus′” to “Muscovy”; to denote the territories of Northeastern and Northwestern Rus′ that were annexed to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the second half of the fifteenth century.
		The twentieth century added a new twist to the debate, dividing scholars who argued that Kyivan Rus′ was the common homeland of the Eastern Slavs and the cradle of the “Old Rus′” nationality from those who claimed the Kyivan past on behalf of the Russian or Ukrainian nation.
	www.cambridge.org /aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521864038&ss=exc (3835 words)

	Welcome to Ukraine
		The state that developed with Kyiv as its centre is traditionally called “Kyivan Rus.” Its rulers of the end of the ninth and early tenth century were of the Scandinavian origin which does not mean at all that the Kyivan Rus statehood was established by the Scandinavian princes.
		It was in the twelfth century that one of the Kyivan princes (who, incidentally, was very much disliked by the Kyivans) founded a little town in the north of his dominions and gave it the name of the river on which it stood — Moskva, Moscow.
		Later, Moscow claimed to be the sole inheritor of the Kyivan Rus traditions, statehood and culture, turning Kyiv (by brutal force when it was needed to prove the point) into a provincial city with a glorious past but insignificant present.
	www.wumag.kiev.ua /index2.php?param=pgs20053/4 (2268 words)

	Welcome to Ukraine
		The Vikings in Kyivan Rus were mostly traders, and two of their commercial treaties with the Greeks are preserved in the Primary Chronicle under the years 912 and 945; the Rus signatories have indubitably Scandinavian names.
		In the nineteenth century, the controversial aspect of the Varangian-Viking presence in Kyivan Rus was much debated and some historians were of the opinion that the Vikings in Rus were responsible for establishing the Kyivan statehood.
		Igor (also called Ingvar), presumably the son of Rurik, prince of Novgorod, who is considered the founder of the dynasty that ruled Kyivan Rus and, later, Muscovy until 1598, was successor to the great warrior Oleg.
	www.wumag.kiev.ua /index2.php?param=pgs20064/74 (1415 words)

	Ukraine
		C.E. The Kyivan state experienced a cultural and commercial flourishing from the ninth to the eleventh centuries under the rulers Volodymyr I (Saint Volodymyr), his son Yaroslav I the Wise, and Volodymyr Monomakh.
		Northern borderlands initially colonized by Rus princes increasingly diverged from the Kyivan culture with the rise of the Duchy of Muscovy.
		The Kyivan Rus urban centers resembled those of medieval Europe: a prince's fortified palace surrounded by the houses of the townsfolk.
	www.everyculture.com /To-Z/Ukraine.html (8959 words)

	Hotels in Ukraine
		Kyivan Rus was a bulwark of European civilization, a sort of its easternmost Ultima Thule, at the edge of the Great Steppe, which was roomed by nomads who kept making incursions into the Ukrainian-Rus lands, some of which were widely disruptive and destructive.
		This principality proved to be strong enough to withstand the pressure both from the east and from the west, fending off the attempts of the western crusaders to subjugate it.
		One of its rulers, Danylo, was crowned a king, and his kingdom preserved, to a great extent, the cultural heritage of Kyivan Rus.
	ukrhotels.com /index.php?page=4 (1509 words)

	World InfoZone - Ukraine Facts
		Kyivan Rus, the Slavic State of the tenth and eleventh centuries, was centred in Ukraine.
		During this time Kyivan Rus was the most powerful state in Europe.
		Prince Yaroslav the Wise, who ruled Kyivan Rus between 1019 and 1054, is remembered for the promotion of learning and culture.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Ukraine (453 words)

	Hotels in Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Kyivan Rus was a bulwark of European civilization, a sort of its easternmost Ultima Thule, at the edge of the Great Steppe, which was roomed by nomads who kept making incursions into the Ukrainian-Rus lands, some of which were widely disruptive and destructive.
		This principality proved to be strong enough to withstand the pressure both from the east and from the west, fending off the attempts of the western crusaders to subjugate it.
		One of its rulers, Danylo, was crowned a king, and his kingdom preserved, to a great extent, the cultural heritage of Kyivan Rus.
	www.ukrhotels.com /index.php?page=4 (1509 words)

	Kyivan Rus'
		The Kyivan Rus’ period lasted from the mid ninth century until the year 1240 and was one of the largest Medieval European states.
		In its prime, the Kyivan Rus’ state extended from the Carpathian Mountains to the Volga River and from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea.
		The people of the Kyivan state gathered at the banks of the Dnipro in Kyiv to be baptized.
	www.personal.psu.edu /hjb141/UKR_100/kyivanrus.html (338 words)

	Eurozine - Articles
		Kyivan Rus' reached the height of its imperial might in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and collapsed under the Mongol and Tatar invasion in 1240.
		In terms of territory and ethnicity, Muscovy was on the margins of the Kyivan Rus empire, and probably had little more legitimate claim to its legacy than, say, Romania to ancient Rome.
		Only the Eastern Rus' territories fell under the Tatar protectorate, and were eventually unified under the Moscow regime and emancipated from the "Tatar yoke".
	www.eurozine.com /article/2005-04-04-riabchuk-en.html (3811 words)

	The Cyrillo-Methodian Heritage of Kyiv
		It was the Kyivan Prince Askold who, on 18 June AD860, arrived with his fleet of over 200 ships, into the Bay of the Golden Horn to threaten Constantinople.
		Along with the first Baptism of Kyivan Rus' came a great devotion to the Blachernae Mother of God and Her Robe.
		From that time, Kyivan Rus' was very devoted to the Mantle of Protection of the Virgin Mary, or the Pokrova and its feast, October 1, became a national holiday in Ukraine.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/saints_icons/saints_new/cryrillo.htm (1033 words)

	FOCUS ON PHILATELY: The founding family of Kyivan Rus' (PART I) (10/06/02) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It is my contention that Ihor is the true originator of the ruling Rus' lineage in Kyiv and that the name of the larger-than-life Riurik whose "Riurikide" appellation is given to the dynasty, should be expunged once and for all.
		I believe that it is high time that Ukraine finally lays its rightful claim to its glorious medieval Rus' legacy by jettisoning the baggage brought on by the "Riurikide" label and by which Russian historians still lay claim to the Kyivan Rus' heritage.
		The shift in Rus' trade orientation is well described by Franklin, S. and Shepard, J. in Chapter 2 of "The Emergence of Rus' 750-1200" (London, Longman Group Ltd., 1996), pp.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2002/400218.shtml (2179 words)

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		Forexample, Prince Askold, claimed to be Russian, was of Rus', not Russia(which did not even exist at the time) and was fighting at Byzantium andConstantinople, in 860 at a time when it has been claimed he would havebeen in the far northern or northeastern territories proximate toMuscovy setting up a Muscovite or "Russian" kingdom.
		Muscovites did notcome from Kyivan Ruce, they left their northern and northeasternterritories and had to forcibly invade southward into the Kyivan empireto have any part of it.
		They had independentdevelopment and can make no claims to Kyivan Ruce--their existence andactivity and locations are documented by the old Chronicles, as are thelocations and activities and territories of Kyivan Ruce.I'll quote the Britannica, lest quoting more famous historians resultsin accusations of quoting biased or unimportant historians.
	www.pbs.org /netforum/static/faceofrussia/24.html (3229 words)

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