VARANGIANS

vərănˈjēənz, name given by Slavs and Byzantine Greeks to Scandinavians who began to raid the eastern shores of the Baltic and penetrate Eastern Europe by the 9th cent. Their leader, Rurik, established himself at Novgorod in 862, thus laying the traditional foundation for Kievan Rus. The Varangians, some of whom were known also as Rus or Rhos, made their way down the Dnieper and established the great trade route from Kiev to Byzantium. In the 9th and 10th cent. they repeatedly threatened Constantinople. During the 10th and 11th cent. they served as soldiers of East Slavic princes, but they gradually merged with the Slavs, adopting Slavic culture. Other Varangians served as mercenary troops to the emperors at Constantinople. Varangian migrations paralleled those of the Norsemen and Vikings in the West.

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Russia from the Varangians to the Bolsheviks
Book by Raymond Beazley, Nevill Forbes, G. A. Birkett; The Clarendon Press, 1918
Subjects: Soviet Union--History
...the University RUSSIA FROM THE VARANGIANS TO THE BOLSHEVIKS BY RAYMOND BEAZLEY...See the note on p. 201 . of these Varangians this name of Rus originally a Finnish...to name the Russian land. . . . The Varangians from over sea laid tribute upon the...
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The Origin of Russia
Book by Henryk Paszkiewicz; George Allen & Unwin, 1954
Subjects: Russia--History--To 1533
...Rus: 1018. "After collecting Rus, Varangians, and Slavs, Yaroslav marched forth...or of some chieftain of the Norse Varangians, but in quite different connections...So did certain non- Slavs: Greeks, Varangians, Lithuanians, Finns from the banks of...
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The Origins of Russia
Book by George Vernadsky; Clarendon Press, 1959
Subjects: Russia--History--To 1533
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Kiev Rus
Book by Boris Grekov, Y. Sdobnikov, Dennis Ogden; Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1959
Subjects: Kievan Rus--History--862-1237
...1870s Gedeonov, the author of The Varangians and Rus , sharply opposes the opinions...1 S. Gedeonov, The Varangians and Rus , Part I, St. Petersburg...he read of the erstwhile rule of the Varangians in Novgorod where they "perpetrated...
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The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (Ad 1075-1225)
Book by Nils Blomkvist; Brill, 2005
Subjects: Baltic Sea Region--Church History, Catholic Church--Baltic Sea Region--History, Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
...lands in the west: At the same sea Varangians are living as far to the east as Sems...Other descendants of Jafet are the Varangians, the Svear, the Norwegians, the Gotar...The PVL tells of a highroad from the Varangians to the Greeks and from the land of...
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journal articles on: Varangians  - 6 results

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Vladimir: What's in a Name?
Journal article by Andrew M. Drozd; Germano-Slavica, 2000
Subjects: Slavic countries--Social aspects, Slavic languages--Analysis, Slavs--Names
...name was in existence before the supposed "invitation" to the Varangians (reported under the year 862 in the Russian Primary Chronicle...name his son Vladimir by 849 A.D. The supposed Scandinavian Varangians are generally not thought to have reached the area of Kiev...
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The Geographical Pivot of History (1904)
Journal article by H.J. Mackinder; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 170, 2004
Subjects: Geography, Historical, Historical geography
...ascended the Dnieper to Kief, just as beforehand the Norse Varangians had descended the same river on their way to Constantinople...came merely from the northern forests, like the Goths and Varangians of a later time. The great wedge of population, however, which...
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A Norn at the Spring of Fate: A Miscellany in Honor of E.A. Mel'nikova
Journal article by Anatoly Liberman; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 75, 2003
Subjects: A Norn at the Spring of Fate: A Miscellany in Honor of E.A. Mel'nikova (Book)
...Legend in Medieval Scholarship and Diplomacy") does not address the problem of the alleged founding of the Russian state by the Varangians. Rather, he traces the lasting influence of the tale according to which Russians could not maintain law and order without...
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The Grand Illusion of Jewish Ethnicity
Journal article by Alfred M. Lilienthal; Middle East Policy, Vol. 1, 1992
Subjects: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East, Middle East--Foreign Relations--United States, Middle East--Politics And Government--1979-, United States--Foreign Relations--Middle East
...built by the Khazars. There were Jews in the city and the surrounding area before the Russian empire was founded by the Varangians, whom the Scandinavian warriors sometimes called the Russ or Ross (circa 855-863). The influence of the Khazars extended...
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"For the Sake of Slavdom" II. M. P. Pogodin and the Moscow Slavic Benevolent Committee: A Collective Portrait of 1870
Journal article by Zdenko Zlatar; East European Quarterly, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Crimean War, 1853-1856, Panslavism--Analysis, Political organizations--History, Political organizations--Political activity
...of the great contributions to the so-called Norman theory of the origins of the Russian state which argues that it was the Varangians (whom Pogodin and others called Normans) who formed the first Russian state, or Kievan Rus, by being invited by the Slavic...
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Geoffrey Hosking
Magazine article by Daniel Snowman; History Today, Vol. 50, July 2000
Subjects: Historians--Biography, Hosking, Geoffrey--Biography
...building block. But for the first time, Hosking has also written about Russias relations with its neighbours, of the Mongols, Varangians and Poles, the Swedish, Ottoman and Austrian empires and the twentieth-century challenges from Japan, Germany and China. All...


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encyclopedia articles on: Varangians  - 9 results

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Varangians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VARANGIANS v ran je nz, name given by Slavs and Byzantine Greeks...laying the traditional foundation for Kievan Rus . The Varangians, some of whom were known also as Rus or Rhos, made their...merged with the Slavs, adopting Slavic culture. Other Varangians served as mercenary troops to the emperors at Constantinople...
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Oleg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...o leg, Rus. olek or Oleh olekh , d. c.912, founder of Kievan Rus . Succeeding his kinsman Rurik as leader of the Varangians at Novgorod, Oleg led forth his retainers to seize Kiev (c.879). He made Kiev his capital and set about uniting the Slavic...
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Kievan Rus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Oleg or Oleh (d. c.912), shifted his attention to the south, seized Kiev (c.879), and established the new Kievan state. The Varangians were also known as Rus or Rhos ; it is possible that this name was early extended to the Slavs of the Kievan state, which...
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Kiev
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Slavic settlement on the great trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople, Kiev was tributary to the Khazars when the Varangians under Oleg established themselves there in 882. Under Olegs successors it became the capital of medieval Kievan Rus (the...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...arrival (9th cent.) of Scandinavian traders and warriors, the Varangians . Tradition has it that one of their leaders, Rurik , established...The name Russ or Rhos possibly originally designated the Varangians, or some of them, but it was early extended to the Eastern...
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