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The Rus' people were an ethnos in early medieval eastern Europe who were originally Norse people from Sweden who settled and ruled along river routes between the Baltic and Black Seas from the 8th to 11th centuries, forming a state known as Kievan Rus'. They ultimately gave their name to Russia and Belarus and are relevant to the national histories of several countries in eastern Europe.

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The Rus' people (Old East Slavic: Рѹсь; Modern Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and

Ukrainian: Русь, romanised: Rus'; Old Norse: Garðar; Greek: Ῥῶς, romanised: Rhos)
were an ethnos in early medieval eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that
they were originally Norse people, mainly originating from Sweden, settling and
ruling along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the
8th to 11th centuries AD. They formed a state known as Kievan Rus', which was
initially a multiethnic society where the ruling Norsemen merged and assimilated
with Slavic, Baltic and Finnic tribes, ending up with Old East Slavic as their
common language. The elite of Kievan Rus' was still familiar with Old Norse until
their assimilation by the second half of the 11th c.,[1] and in rural areas
vestiges of Norse culture lingered as long as the 14th and early 15th centuries.[1]

The history of the Rus' is central to 9th through 10th-century state formation, and
thus national origins, in eastern Europe. They ultimately gave their name to Russia
and Belarus, and they are relevant to the national histories of Russia, Ukraine,
Sweden, Poland, Belarus, Finland and the Baltic states. Because of this importance,
there is a set of alternative so-called "Anti-Normanist" views that are largely
confined to a minor group of East European scholars.The Rus' people (Old East
Slavic: Рѹсь; Modern Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian: Русь, romanised:
Rus'; Old Norse: Garðar; Greek: Ῥῶς, romanised: Rhos) were an ethnos in early
medieval eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally
Norse people, mainly originating from Sweden, settling and ruling along the river-
routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries
AD. They formed a state known as Kievan Rus', which was initially a multiethnic
society where the ruling Norsemen merged and assimilated with Slavic, Baltic and
Finnic tribes, ending up with Old East Slavic as their common language. The elite
of Kievan Rus' was still familiar with Old Norse until their assimilation by the
second half of the 11th c.,[1] and in rural areas vestiges of Norse culture
lingered as long as the 14th and early 15th centuries.[1]

The history of the Rus' is central to 9th through 10th-century state formation, and
thus national origins, in eastern Europe. They ultimately gave their name to Russia
and Belarus, and they are relevant to the national histories of Russia, Ukraine,
Sweden, Poland, Belarus, Finland and the Baltic states. Because of this importance,
there is a set of alternative so-called "Anti-Normanist" views that are largely
confined to a minor group of East European scholars.

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