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Rus properNoun

  /ɹuːs/ , /ɹʌs/
  • A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev and the Volga and Dnieper gave rise to the Rus' principalities. [from 19th c.]
  • Kievan Rus', the medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was in Kiev.
  • Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.
 Рус
Kievan Rus
Ки́евска Рус
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