Principalities of Kievan Rus'

The Grand Principality of Vladimir, before 1157 the Principality of Suzdal, and commonly known as Vladimir-Suzdal, or simply Suzdalia and Vladimiria, was a medieval principality that was established during the disintegration of Kievan Rus'. In historiography, the territory of the grand principality and the principalities that emerged from it is commonly denoted as northeast Russia or northeast Rus.

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Tmutarakan (, ; ) was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries. Its site was the ancient Greek colony of Hermonassa () founded in the mid 6th century BCE, by Mytilene (Lesbos), situated on the Taman peninsula, in present-day Krasnodar Krai, Russia, roughly opposite Kerch. The Khazar fortress of Tamantarkhan (from which the Byzantine name for the city, Tamatarcha, is derived) was built on the site in the 7th century, and became known as Tmutarakan wh

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former Ruthenian state in the regions of central Ukraine around the city of Kyiv

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western Kievan Rus' principality founded by the Rurik dynasty in 987 centered in the region of Volhynia in modern-day Ukraine

mediaeval Slavic principality (1097-1240)

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