°A group of
Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century.
°The ruling class and their retinue, of Scandinavian origin, who settled among the
Eastern Slavs around
Kiev and the
Dnieper by the tenth century.
synonyms:
kievan rus, kievan rus', kyivan rus, kyivan rus'
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