The Origins of Kyiv
Dan Snow's History Hit
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How to Tell the Story of the Russ Empire?
The term rus is complicated in this way. It was used differently throughout even the very early mediaeval period. Once christianity comes trus and writing comes trus, it is controlled by the patriarch of constantinople. Byzantines didn't necessarily know everything that was going on on the ground in the rus lands. The vast expanse of ruse lands. They wanted unity, and they wanted one metropolitan in the city of ca - usually a greek who sat as the of the church in the rUS. There were many centres, princely centres, kngista, from the word knas, ruler. But yet they did come from a single dynasty
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