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    The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told...
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    The culture of Kievan Rus' spans the cultural developments in Kievan Rus' from the 9th to 13th century of the Middle Ages. The Kievan monarchy came under...
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    Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus', was a state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th...
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    The architecture of Kievan Rus' comes from the medieval state of Kievan Rus' which incorporated parts of what is now modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus...
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  • history of money in Kievan Rus' is divided into two main phases: the period of use of foreign silver coins (from the 9th century to the beginning of the 12th...
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    Varangians (redirect from Varangian Rus)
    culminating in the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988. Coinciding with the general decline of the Viking Age, the influx of Scandinavians to Rus' stopped and...
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    Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988, and Christianized the Kievan Rus. Several scholars refer to Vladimir as Volodimer, also spelled...
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    The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking numerous cities including the largest such as Kiev (50,000...
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    Varangian Guard (category Guards units of the Byzantine Empire)
    following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' by Vladimir I of Kiev. Vladimir, who had recently usurped power in Kiev with an army of Varangian warriors...
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  • a list of wars involving Kievan Rus' (c. 9th century–1240). These wars involved Kievan Rus' (also known as Kyivan Rus') as a whole, or some of its principalities...
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    reign of Vladimir II Monomakh. With the Christianization of Kievan Rus', church law arose. The most important source of church law in Kievan Rus' was the...
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    transcribed Povest' vremennykh let (PVL), lit. 'Tale of Bygone Years'), is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110. It is believed to have been...
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    regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the...
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    operation of the Kievan Rus' against the Byzantine Empire. Paradoxically, Greek sources do not mention it at all. The chronicle describes the raid of 907 in...
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  • Kyivskyi ta vsiiei Rusi) was a metropolis of the Eastern Orthodox Church that was erected on the territory of Kievan Rus'. It existed between 988 AD and 1596...
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    Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The primate of the ROC is the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. The Christianization of Kievan Rus'...
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    Christianization of Poland (966) Christianization of Kievan Rus' (988) Christianization of Pomerania (1124) Outline of Slavic history and culture Slavic paganism...
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    Kievan Rus' ornament is a general designation for ornamental patterns characteristic of the culture of Kievan Rus', and partially rooted in its pre-Christian...
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    annually on 15 July thereafter, in commemoration of the Christianization of Kievan Rus'. The Day of Ukrainian Statehood (Ukrainian: День Української Державності...
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    following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in the 10th century. As the dukes of Lithuania extended their dominion eastwards, the influence of the Slavic...
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    beginnings to the Christianization of Kievan Rusʹ at Kiev in 988 AD. In 1316 the Metropolitan of Kiev changed his see to the city of Vladimir, and in 1322...
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  • known as the Baptism of Volodimer, and regarded as the highlight of the Christianization of Kievan Rusʹ (dubbed the Baptism of Rus'). What virtually all...
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  • name Rus' (Cyrillic: Русь) referred to the people, regions, and medieval principalities (9th to 12th centuries) within the territory of the Kievan Rus'....
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  • Denmark 966 – Christianization of Poland c. 989 – Christianization of Kievan Rus' 995 – Norway 999 – Faroe Islands c. 1000 Christianization of Hungary with...
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  • Following the Christianization of Kievan Rus', Vladimir sent his son, Yaroslav, to govern Veliky Novgorod in the north of Kievan Rus'. Mstislav was sent...
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    territory of Ukraine, from the Kievan Rus' times to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Ukraine by Ukrainian military. Kievan Rus' is considered...
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    factors in explaining the current state of irreligiosity." Christianization of Lithuania Christianization of Kievan Rus' Germanic Christianity Heimskringla...
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    (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ). Following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988 during the reign of Vladimir the Great, the name Vladimir, along with...
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    Novgorod Codex (category Cultural history of Russia)
    Новгородский кодекс) is the oldest book of Kievan Rus', unearthed on 13 July 2000 in Novgorod. It is a palimpsest consisting of three bound wooden tablets containing...
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    charge of male potency, however no visual proof has been provided. During the Christianization of Kievan Rus', she was replaced by the cult of the Virgin...
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