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| | Russian Primary Chronicle, The -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The chronicle, compiled in Kiev about 1113, was based on materials taken from Byzantine chronicles, west and south Slavonic literary sources, official documents, and oral sagas; the earliest extant manuscript of it is dated... |
 | | Although many traces of the Slavic culture that existed in the territories of Kievan Rus survived beyond its Christianization (which occurred, according to The Russian Primary Chronicle, in AD 988), the cultural system that organized the lives of the early Slavs is far from being understood. |
 | | Medieval chronicle of the victory of King Alfred the Great over the Vikings, originally composed in both Latin and Anglo-Saxon by Aethelweard (Ethelwerd), a descendant of the brother of King Alfred. |
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