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#Rus'
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Peoples & Migrations · Rus'
Gnezdovo: Viking Graves on the Dnieper
Gnezdovo near Smolensk was the largest Viking-Age site in Rus'. Its thousands of burial mounds, chamber graves, swords, hoards and oldest Rus' inscription.
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Peoples & Migrations · Abbasid Caliphate
Holmgard: Novgorod and Rurik's Hillfort in the Viking Age
Holmgard (Holmgarðr) was the Norse name for Novgorod, and first for the island hillfort beside it. What the excavations, runestones and sagas reveal.
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War & Warriors · Rus'
The Rus' Attack on Constantinople (860): The Vikings' First Raid on Byzantium
In 860 a Rus' fleet raided the outskirts of Constantinople. What Patriarch Photios saw, who the attackers were, why they left and where the storm legend began.
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Peoples & Migrations · Viking settlements
Staraya Ladoga: The First Viking Town in the East
Staraya Ladoga, the Norse Aldeigjuborg: its smithy of 753, eleven building levels, runes, boat graves, sagas and the "first capital of Russia" claim.
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Peoples & Migrations · Viking settlements
Who Were the Varangians? Vikings of the Eastern Rivers, Rus' and Byzantium
Who were the Varangians? The Vikings in Russia and Ukraine: Scandinavian traders, warriors and princes on the river roads to Byzantium and Baghdad.
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Sources & Evidence · Volga Bulgaria
Ibn Fadlan: The Baghdad Envoy Who Met the Vikings on the Volga
Who was Ibn Fadlan? Follow the Abbasid envoy from Baghdad to the Volga in 921–922 and read what he really wrote about the Rus' and their ship funeral.