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Within Vinony's link graph, Rus' people is referenced by 1,015 other articles, and connects out to Old Norse, Kyiv and Vikings.
It sits within the topics Historical ethnic groups of Europe, Interlanguage link template existing link and Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups.
Its subject is documented across 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Named after
- Rus
- Languages spoken
- Church Slavonic
- Native language
- Old East Slavic
- Religion
- Christianity
- Image
- Присяга воинов Олега оружием и богом Перуном; утверждение мирною договора Олега с греками.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rus' people
- topic's main category
- Category:Rus' people
- different from
- Russians
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- ancestral home
- Rus
- described by source
- Chronica Slavorum
- native label
- РУСЪ
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Encyclopedic overview
Map showing the major Varangian trade routes: the Volga trade route (in red) and the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks (in purple). Sufficiently controlling strongholds, market places and portages along the routes was necessary for the Scandinavian raiders and traders.
The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Sea from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rus' people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.