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    Tmutarakan (Russian: Тмутарака́нь, romanized: Tmutarakán', IPA: [tmʊtərɐˈkanʲ]; Old East Slavic: Тъмуторокань, romanized: Tǔmutorokanǐ) was a medieval...
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    that "it is highly probable" that Oleg succeeded his brother, Gleb in Tmutarakan after their father appointed the latter Prince of Novgorod in about 1068...
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    Mstislav Vladimirovich (died c. 1035) was the earliest attested prince of Tmutarakan and Chernigov in Kievan Rus'. He was a younger son of Vladimir the Great...
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  • 1064, assisted by his father's close friend Vyshata, seized the rich Tmutarakan on the Black Sea littoral, previously controlled by the House of Chernigov...
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  • The Stone of Tmutarakan (Russian: Тмутараканский камень) is a marble slab engraved with the words "In the year 6576 [ A.M., 1068 A.D] the sixth of the...
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    Hermonassa and Phanagoria stood on the peninsula, as did the later city of Tmutarakan. The Maeotae and Sindi settled in the area from ancient times. In the...
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  • The Prince of Tmutarakan (Russian: князь тмутараканский) was the title of the ruler of Tmutarakan, a principality of Kievan Rus'. Mstislav of Chernigov...
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    In 1024, Mstislav of Chernigov, son of Vladimir the Great arrived from Tmutarakan and established rule over the principality of Chernigov. Mstislav set...
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    Tmutarakan ruler Prince Mstislav defeats Kassog Prince Rededya in 1022, ceasing mutual hostilities by way of duel. Painting by Nicholas Roerich, 1943....
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    (extant; cadet branch of the Obolensky family) Rostislavichi of Tmutarakan, princes of Tmutarakan Rostislavichi of Halych, princes of Halych Vadbosky, a branch...
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    Mstislavich the Daring, also called the Able (died c. 1228), was a prince of Tmutarakan and Chernigov, one of the princes from Kievan Rus' in the decades preceding...
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    while Rostislav Vladimirovich was fighting for the Black Sea port of Tmutarakan belonging to Chernigov.[citation needed] Three of Yaroslav's sons that...
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    formed the Tmutarakan principality. Later, due to the increasing claims of the Eastern Roman Empire at the end of the 11th century, the Tmutarakan principality...
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    was a Khazar warlord against whom the Byzantine Empire and Mstislav of Tmutarakan launched a joint expedition in 1016. He appears only in the account of...
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    Census). Taman occupies the site of the ancient cities of Hermonassa and Tmutarakan. From the end of the 15th century until 1783, this was a site of a Turkish...
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    In 1022, Prince Mstislav the Brave, who at the time was the prince of Tmutarakan, started a military operation against the Alans. During the operation...
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    from Oleg and was an independent prince in Tmutarakan; the existence of an independent Rus' state in Tmutarakan in the first half of the tenth century is...
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    Gleb Svyatoslavich (category Princes of Tmutarakan)
    Svyatoslavich (c. 1052 – 30 May 1078) was Prince of Tmutarakan and Novgorod of Kievan Rus'. He ruled Tmutarakan under the overall authority of his father Sviatoslav...
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    University Bloomington. Time: Unspecified Place: Partly in the city of Tmutarakan and partly on the island of Buyan On a wintry evening three sisters are...
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    steppe peoples then dominant in the Pontic region. Upon his conquest of Tmutarakan in the 1080s Oleg Sviatoslavich, son of a prince of Chernigov, gave himself...
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    Empire. Persepolis – Ceremonial Complex built by Achaemenid kings. Samaria Tmutarakan Troy – Bronze Age anatolian city made famous by Homer's Iliad. Ur - Sumerian...
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    infant, if he was ever born Mstislav of Chernigov (born c. 983), Prince of Tmutarakan (990–1036), Prince of Chernigov (1024–1036), other sources claim him to...
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    around 1124 as a seat of Ivan Vasylkovych the grandson of Rostislav of Tmutarakan. According to Mykhailo Hrushevsky the realm of Halych was passed to Rostyslav...
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    principalities Beloozero Drutsk Halych Minsk Murom Peremyshl Podolia Slutsk Terebovlia Tmutarakan Trubetsk Turov-Pinsk Vitebsk Volhynia Zaslawye Zvenyhorod...
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  • circumstances, Igor was transferred to Smolensk. Around that time Rostislav of Tmutarakan was given his former realm to govern. Like his other brother Vyacheslav...
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  • (Володарь-Владимир Ростиславич) (?-1124)- knyaz of Peremyshl, son of Tmutarakan kniaz Rostislav Vladimirovich (Ростислав Владимирович) Vasilko Rostislavich...
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    daughter, Lanka, who was the wife of Prince Rostislav Vladimirovich of Tmutarakan. The following family tree presents Béla's ancestry, his offspring, and...
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  • Prince of Chernigov ?-1097–1123 Gleb Pr. of Tmutarakan and Novgorod ≈1052–1078 Roman the Handsome Pr. of Tmutarakan ≈1052–1079 Vladimir II Monomakh G.P. of...
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    Persian traveler Ibn Rustah who, it is postulated, visited Novgorod (or Tmutarakan, according to George Vernadsky) and described how the Rus' exploited the...
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    colonies at Phanagoria (at the head of Taman Bay), Hermonassa (later Tmutarakan and Taman), Gorgippia (later a Turkish port and now Anapa). At the northeast...
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