Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia
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Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia
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Originally, the name Rus' referred to the people, regions, and medieval principalities within the territory of the Kievan Rus'. Today its territory is distributed among Belarus, Ukraine, Eastern Poland, and the European section of Russia. The term Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Rus', Ρωσσία Rossía—related to both Modern Greek: Ρως, romanized: Ros, lit. 'Rus'', and Ρωσία. One of the earliest written sources mentioning the people called Rus' dates to 839 in the
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2004-06-04T21:38:45Z
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2024-08-28T11:37:03Z
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