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    Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kievan Rus'. The former cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and...
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  • Trabzon, now a mosque Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv (11th century), a cathedral in Kiev Saint Sophia Cathedral, Zhytomyr (1748), a cathedral in the Roman Catholic...
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  • Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia, also rendered Saint Sophia) include: Wikimedia Commons has media related to Holy Wisdom churches. Sophia of Rome#Churches, for...
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    Novgorod. Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv Saint Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk Hagia Sophia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod...
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    architects from Constantinople.[citation needed] Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    Kioviencis ) also called Catholic Cathedral of St. Sophia is the name given to a Catholic cathedral that was in the city of Kyiv, the capital of the European...
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  • Sophia of Kiev can refer to: National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kyiv" Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv Queen Sophia of Kiev (c. 1405–1461) This disambiguation page...
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    Belarus. The cathedral is named after the Holy Wisdom of God, similar to the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod. After...
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    Yaroslav the Wise (category Burials at Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv)
    was a patron of literary culture, sponsoring the construction of Saint Sophia Cathedral in 1037 and promoting the first work of Old East Slavic literature...
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    Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv in Ukraine. The 6-meter-high mosaic is located in the vault of the chancel. The icon has been present in the cathedral...
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    The Bell Tower of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv is a monument of Ukrainian architecture in the style of Ukrainian (Cossack) Baroque. It is one of the...
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    Kievan Rus' (redirect from Kyiv Rus)
    10th century. Henryk Siemiradzki (1883) Model of the original Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv; used on modern 2 hryvni of Ukraine The Nativity, a Kievan (possibly...
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  • after Iziaslav in late 1154 or early 1155 and is buried in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. His only son, Michael Viacheslavovich, had predeceased him...
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    Vsevolod I Yaroslavich (Old East Slavic: Всеволодъ Ꙗрославичь, romanized: Vsevolodǔ Jaroslavičǐ; c. 1030 – 13 April 1093) was Grand Prince of Kiev from...
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    dedicated to Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, close to the St Sophia Cathedral. The heads of the monastery were the hegumens of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra...
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    1968, the building has been a museum, part of the National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kyiv" as a landmark of cultural heritage. At the beginning of the 21st century...
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  • Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden (category Burials at Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv)
    Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev or Cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod. Ingegerd initiated the building of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev (foundation...
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    A fresco in the 11th c. Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv that appears to depict a berserker ritual performed by Varangians (Scandinavians)...
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    University of Kyiv. View from Saint Vladimir hill, Kyiv. Golden Gate, Kyiv, 1846. Irynynska Cathedral [uk] with Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, in the background...
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    precious historic sites. Complex of Saint Sophia Cathedral, prime landmark Golden Gates, part of Sophia of Kyiv since 1983 St. Cyril's Monastery, created...
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    The Grand Prince of Kyiv and ruler of Kievan Rus' Vladimir the Great laid the first foundations of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv. September 29 – Siege...
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    Ukrainian people, delivered on Sophia Square in Kyiv, Patriarch Bartholomew directly called the accession of the Metropolis of Kyiv to the Moscow Patriarchate...
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    Saint Sophia Cathedral (Ukrainian: Кафедральний собор св. Софії) is a Catholic church that serves as the principal church of the Roman Catholic Diocese...
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    Pereiaslav, 20) Lutsk Castle, 21) House of the State Industry Kyiv: Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Sophia of Kyiv, House with Chimaeras; Crimea: Livadia Palace, Mount Mithridat...
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  • Gytha of Wessex (category Burials at Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv)
    Gytha of Wessex (born c. 1053/1061 – died 1098 or 1107; Old English: Gȳð) was one of several daughters of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of...
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    Its sacred sites, which include the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (the Monastery of the Caves) and the Saint Sophia Cathedral are probably the most famous. Attracting...
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    Vladimir II Monomakh (category Burials at Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv)
    apart 10 years after his death. Vladimir Monomakh was buried at Saint Sophia Cathedral. Succeeding generations often referred to his reign as the golden...
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    the picture of which is based on the ancient floor design of Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv. Reconstruction of the monument reproduces the segments of...
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  • Leonid Kuchma backed the UOC(MP). Kravchuk initially promised Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv to the UOC–KP, but following Kuchma's 1994 election as president...
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    original from Tower of London. Lower right: 9th century mural, Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, depicting two Varangians during a ritual, one with a dane axe...
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