Etymology
Origin of Kievan
Example Sentences
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That’s when Vladimir I, the ruler of Kievan Rus’, which included parts of current-day Ukraine and Russia, converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
He recalled the village’s ancestors who lived here beginning more than a millennium ago, the people of Kievan Rus, considered the first Slavic state.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
He dates the start of Russia’s European-facing empire to the kingdom of Kievan Rus, which began in the ninth century in Kyiv, the present-day capital of Ukraine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2021
The action is set in the decades leading up to the year 1000, and spans a broad geographical area including Muslim Spain, Kievan Rus, Viking-ravaged England and Denmark on the cusp of conversion to Christianity.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2017
If he really was the last dragon in the world—or Kievan Rus’, or the Thrice Nine Kingdoms, or wherever—it would make him a target for not just the tsar, but everyone.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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