Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus? (, Kievskaya Rus; , Kyivs?ka Rus?) was the early, mostly East Slavic? state dominated by the city of Kiev (Russian: ?????, Kiev; Ukrainian: ?????, Kyiv), from about 880 to the middle of the 12th century. The reigns of St. Vladimir (980-1015) and his son Yaroslav I the Wise (1019-1054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity and the creation of the first east Slavic written legal code, the Ruska Pravda.

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Kiev: Kiev (Ukrainian: , Kyiv; Russian: , Kiev; also spelled Kyiv (see also Cities' alternative names), is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. As of 2003, Kiev officially had 2,642,486 inhabitants, although the large number of...

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