Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Originally, the name Rus’ (Русь, Rus) referred to the people, the region, and the medieval states (9th to 12th centuries) of the Kievan Rus' polities. In the Western culture it is better known as Ruthenia from the 11th century onwards. Its territories are today distributed among Belarus, Ukraine, and a part of the European section of the Russian Federation.One of the earliest written sources mentioning the people called Rus' (as Rhos) dates back to year 839 AD in a Royal Frankish chronicle Annales Bertiniani; the Frankish authorities identified them as a Germanic tribe called the Swedes. According to the Kievan Rus' Primary Chronicle, compiled in about 1113 AD, the Rus' were a group of Varangians, Norsemen who had relocated somewhere from the Baltic region (literally \"from beyond the sea\"), first to Northeastern Europe, then to the south where they created the medieval Kievan state.The modern name of Russia (Rossiya), which came into use in the 17th century, is derived from the Greek Ρωσία (transliterated Rosia), which in turn derives from Ῥῶς (transliteration: Ros), an early Greek name for the people of Rus'. \"Rus'\" as a state had no proper name; by its inhabitants it was called rusĭskaja zemlja (русьская земля) – with rusĭskaja becoming russkaja in Modern Russian –, which translates as \"Land of the Rus'\". The word rusĭskaja is an adjective: the morpheme -ĭsk- corresponds etymologically to English -ish; -aja marks feminine adjectives (namely, zemlja, \"land\", is grammatically feminine in Slavic). In similar fashion, Poland is called Polska by its inhabitants, that is, Pol-sk-a, originally being the adjective Polish (land).To distinguish the medieval \"Rus'\" state from other states that derived from it, modern historiography calls it \"Kievan Rus'.\" Its predecessor, the 9th century \"Rus' Khaganate,\" is a somewhat hypothetical state whose existence is inferred from a handful of early medieval Byzantine and Persian/Arabic sources that mention that the Rus' people were governed by a khagan."@en }
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- Rus_(name) abstract "Originally, the name Rus’ (Русь, Rus) referred to the people, the region, and the medieval states (9th to 12th centuries) of the Kievan Rus' polities. In the Western culture it is better known as Ruthenia from the 11th century onwards. Its territories are today distributed among Belarus, Ukraine, and a part of the European section of the Russian Federation.One of the earliest written sources mentioning the people called Rus' (as Rhos) dates back to year 839 AD in a Royal Frankish chronicle Annales Bertiniani; the Frankish authorities identified them as a Germanic tribe called the Swedes. According to the Kievan Rus' Primary Chronicle, compiled in about 1113 AD, the Rus' were a group of Varangians, Norsemen who had relocated somewhere from the Baltic region (literally \"from beyond the sea\"), first to Northeastern Europe, then to the south where they created the medieval Kievan state.The modern name of Russia (Rossiya), which came into use in the 17th century, is derived from the Greek Ρωσία (transliterated Rosia), which in turn derives from Ῥῶς (transliteration: Ros), an early Greek name for the people of Rus'. \"Rus'\" as a state had no proper name; by its inhabitants it was called rusĭskaja zemlja (русьская земля) – with rusĭskaja becoming russkaja in Modern Russian –, which translates as \"Land of the Rus'\". The word rusĭskaja is an adjective: the morpheme -ĭsk- corresponds etymologically to English -ish; -aja marks feminine adjectives (namely, zemlja, \"land\", is grammatically feminine in Slavic). In similar fashion, Poland is called Polska by its inhabitants, that is, Pol-sk-a, originally being the adjective Polish (land).To distinguish the medieval \"Rus'\" state from other states that derived from it, modern historiography calls it \"Kievan Rus'.\" Its predecessor, the 9th century \"Rus' Khaganate,\" is a somewhat hypothetical state whose existence is inferred from a handful of early medieval Byzantine and Persian/Arabic sources that mention that the Rus' people were governed by a khagan.".