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  • proper noun A medieval principality in Eastern Europe centred around Kiev; considered an early predecessor of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

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  • In the twelfth century, the princes of Kievan Rus were integrated into the West through trade and marriage with the royal families of Europe.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • In the twelfth century, the princes of Kievan Rus were integrated into the West through trade and marriage with the royal families of Europe.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The tension mounts as the Mongol hordes advance into Kievan Rus, a civilized place certainly by the standards of the Mongols steeped in the tradition of the Orthodox church.

    Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011

  • In the twelfth century, the princes of Kievan Rus were integrated into the West through trade and marriage with the royal families of Europe.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • In the twelfth century, the princes of Kievan Rus were integrated into the West through trade and marriage with the royal families of Europe.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The Soviet imperium - heir to Kievan Rus, medieval Muscovy and the Romanov dynasty - covered Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and propped up regimes in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

    A world with no one in charge Robert D. Kaplan 2010

  • The effort, directed by Park Pictures' Lance Acord, stars an actual high school rock trio from Ithaca, N.Y., called Kievan Rus.

    NEWS BLIPS Toby O'B 2005

  • Kievan Rus ceased to exist by the thirteenth century, but it lived in historical memory and had an important part in the rise of Ukrainian national and cultural self-consciousness six centuries later.

    Are Hetmen Heroes? Sysyn, Frank E. 1993

  • On the psychology of the Russian peasant himself, Pipes is unusually interesting, not only because he underlines the muzhik's fear and mistrust of the outside world, but because, quite unlike most other scholars, he repeatedly stresses the urge of the peasant to leave the land if not prevented and the pervasive tradition of commercial activity dating from the Scandinavian-founded Kievan Rus.

    Short Reviews Editors, The 1975

  • Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kievan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of

    The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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