Kievan Rus' was a medieval state of East Slavic peoples, ruled by the Rurikid dynasty, with its center at Kyiv. According to chronicles, Oleg of Novgorod took Kyiv around 882 and united the northern and southern lands under one prince. The state flourished through trade along the rivers connecting the Baltic and Black Seas. Under Vladimir the Great it adopted Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium in 988, and under Yaroslav the Wise it reached its cultural peak. Afterward it fragmented into rival principalities, and its power ended with the Mongol invasion, which sacked Kyiv in 1240. Ukraine, Belarus and Russia all claim it as part of their heritage.
Before and after
- 8 August 870 CETreaty of Meerssen
- from 872 CE to 1521Přemyslid dynasty
- 879 CEConstruction of Mosque of Ibn Tulun
- from 880 CE to 1477Duchy of Burgundy
- from 882 CE to 1240Kievan Rus'
- 893 CEConstruction of Preah Vihear Temple
- from 894 CE to 896 CEByzantine–Bulgarian War of 894–896
- 896 CEBattle of Boulgarophygon
- 9th centuryGunpowder
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The era
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