Samvatas
Sign in to saveSamvatas (also Sambatas, ) is a historical name for Kyiv or its fortress. It is attested in the 10th century by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who reports in the treatise De Administrando Imperio (c. 948) regarding the "fortress of Kioava, called Sambatas". It is a hapax legomenon; the toponym is not mentioned anywhere else.
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Samvatas (also Sambatas, ) is a historical name for Kyiv or its fortress. It is attested in the 10th century by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who reports in the treatise De Administrando Imperio (c. 948) regarding the "fortress of Kioava, called Sambatas". It is a hapax legomenon; the toponym is not mentioned anywhere else.
== Etymology and historical evidence == Attempts to explain the etymology of the word do not yet have a reliable basis. It has been proposed to derive it from Slavic, Scandinavian, or Turkic languages.
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